It's several things. First of all, as everyone else has pointed out, the original construction was done as fast as possible, so now they're reaping the "benefits" of their shady construction methods. Now as a result they have a ticking time bomb ready to wipe out Lord knows how many people. I remember reading somewhere, that's it's something like 90% of the chinese population under 50 lives immediately in the area that would be destroyed when the dam breaks. So there goes the entire Chinese military conscription force in case of a hot war.
Beyond the status symbol it gives them and ecological/genocidal devastation its going to cause when it finally breaks, most people have come to the conclusion they're siphoning off a large portion of the energy it makes to mine bitcoin and other crypto currencies. So if that mining goes offline, then the crypto market is going to go haywire as well.
It's several things. First of all, as everyone else has pointed out, the original construction was done as fast as possible, so now they're reaping the "benefits" of their shady construction methods. Now as a result they have a ticking time bomb ready to wipe out Lord knows how many people. I remember reading somewhere, that's it's something like 90% of the chinese population under 50 lives immediately in the area that would be destroyed when the dam breaks. So there goes the entire Chinese military conscription force in case of a hot war.
Beyond the status symbol it gives them and ecological/genocidal devastation its going to cause when it finally breaks, most people have come to the conclusion they're siphoning off a large portion of the energy it makes to mine bitcoin and other crypto currencies. So if that mining goes offline, then the crypto market is going to go haywire as well.