An urban explorer group "The Proper People" visited China in 2019 and have a dozen or so videos of YouTube visiting the abandoned and never finished buildings. I remember in some seeing cracks in the walls big enough to see right into the next room.
exactly... the buildings are fucking dogshit. the few that actually did get constructed properly, were either never finished or finished so cheaply/poorly that they all fell apart in a few years.
just like in other ventures if the shop next to yours is selling the same type of product you are, for less money... it doesn't matter if the quality is shit... stupid people only look at the price.
so it wasn't profitable to build things right when there are 12 other developers offering you "the same thing" for less money.
just like in industries where certain laws can be bent if the customers want that... the companies that do follow the rules can't compete because they aren't willing to risk breaking the law to bring in something that is beyond regulation limits.
the fireworks industry is a prime example of this.
take basic firecrackers for example (same thing applies to most categories of consumer product) the regulations on firecrackers in the US is silly... those "m-80's" you see most stores carry... nothing more than a regular sized 50 mcg of flash cracker inside a larger tube... however there are some people who import real m-80's with 4, 5, 6 full grams of flash... and those guys get all the sales if they manage to sneak them into the country.
the people following the law, following the regs... those are the companies that get screwed with because they are playing the compliance game. so the BATFE and CPSC target them for inspections and product sampling, even though they know the product is compliant (or at least trying to be) and they seemingly do nothing to stop the flow of illegal and dangerous items because those companies aren't registered with the self policing agencies like the APA.
but china... those fuckers in china will make you anything you ask them to, just pay them the money and they'll ship it... the rest is on your neck if you get caught.
big companies are too scared to roll those dice, small guys can afford to take the risk they have a lot less to lose.
i wouldn't be shocked at all to learn that the same thing was happening in the construction trades over there... you need something built that isn't even close to "code"... no fucking problem... someone is willing to do whatever you are willing to pay them to do... less quality means less money means more profit for someone.
An urban explorer group "The Proper People" visited China in 2019 and have a dozen or so videos of YouTube visiting the abandoned and never finished buildings. I remember in some seeing cracks in the walls big enough to see right into the next room.
exactly... the buildings are fucking dogshit. the few that actually did get constructed properly, were either never finished or finished so cheaply/poorly that they all fell apart in a few years.
just like in other ventures if the shop next to yours is selling the same type of product you are, for less money... it doesn't matter if the quality is shit... stupid people only look at the price.
so it wasn't profitable to build things right when there are 12 other developers offering you "the same thing" for less money.
just like in industries where certain laws can be bent if the customers want that... the companies that do follow the rules can't compete because they aren't willing to risk breaking the law to bring in something that is beyond regulation limits.
the fireworks industry is a prime example of this.
take basic firecrackers for example (same thing applies to most categories of consumer product) the regulations on firecrackers in the US is silly... those "m-80's" you see most stores carry... nothing more than a regular sized 50 mcg of flash cracker inside a larger tube... however there are some people who import real m-80's with 4, 5, 6 full grams of flash... and those guys get all the sales if they manage to sneak them into the country.
the people following the law, following the regs... those are the companies that get screwed with because they are playing the compliance game. so the BATFE and CPSC target them for inspections and product sampling, even though they know the product is compliant (or at least trying to be) and they seemingly do nothing to stop the flow of illegal and dangerous items because those companies aren't registered with the self policing agencies like the APA.
but china... those fuckers in china will make you anything you ask them to, just pay them the money and they'll ship it... the rest is on your neck if you get caught.
big companies are too scared to roll those dice, small guys can afford to take the risk they have a lot less to lose.
i wouldn't be shocked at all to learn that the same thing was happening in the construction trades over there... you need something built that isn't even close to "code"... no fucking problem... someone is willing to do whatever you are willing to pay them to do... less quality means less money means more profit for someone.