james wrote:an interesting read, in any case. there's a lot of hate on china in this thread, but we tend to forget just how comfortable we are at times. i'm not saying that what they're doing is right or that there aren't issues re ip infringement, ethics and environmental degradation but it's easy for us to sit here and judge them by our standards when we've had a 50 year head start. they're a nation of over a billion people trying to achieve a quality of life that we take for granted. as mentioned in another post, they're not the first nation to follow this path nor will they be the last.
That's not what the hate is about. It's about the arrogance and corruption -companies, government and individuals with zero ethics who will stop at nothing to make a buck even if that means the death of their own people as in the case of this rail accident. The people involved in making this fault-ridden technology don't give a shit about China's quality of life, they only care about their own pockets.
This story reminds me of The Towering Inferno.
