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15 Dec 2010, 4:22 pm

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15 Dec 2010, 5:22 pm

And yet people choose to live there. I'd suppose many thought it was preferable to Red China in the 50s/60s and British colonial rule in Hong Kong for whatever reason. The fact that society continued to exist there and even thrived hurts doesn't help your argument. The sanitary and living conditions seem more of an issue of limited space rather than lack of government regulations and laws.



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15 Dec 2010, 8:35 pm

Jacoby wrote:
And yet people choose to live there.


It's amazing what can become home.


And that the society still exists (thrives most likely isn't exactly the right word for it) isn't evidence of a success other than that humans can and do endure a lot.


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15 Dec 2010, 9:21 pm

skafather84 wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
And yet people choose to live there.


It's amazing what can become home.


And that the society still exists (thrives most likely isn't exactly the right word for it) isn't evidence of a success other than that humans can and do endure a lot.


If you want to see what works and does not work see how people vote with their feet.

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15 Dec 2010, 9:34 pm

skafather84 wrote:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]


Every conservative's dream land.


I assume you are aware that Walled City no longer exists.

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15 Dec 2010, 9:52 pm

ruveyn wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]


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I assume you are aware that Walled City no longer exists.

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I'd assume that a city that siphons power illegally wouldn't have too much longer to last. I had read about Kowloon before but at the time of the writing, I didn't realize it had been shut down.


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16 Dec 2010, 4:14 am

skafather84 wrote:

I'd assume that a city that siphons power illegally wouldn't have too much longer to last. I had read about Kowloon before but at the time of the writing, I didn't realize it had been shut down.


Since 2003. Hong Kong is the closest thing there is to a Free Enterprise city-state. I don't know to what extent the Chinese have maintained it as the most capitalistic place in the world. Under the Brits, it had a government that barely interfered with trade and commerce. It was then (and I hope it is now) Captialist City.

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20 Dec 2010, 11:30 pm

skafather84 wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
And yet people choose to live there.


It's amazing what can become home.


And that the society still exists (thrives most likely isn't exactly the right word for it) isn't evidence of a success other than that humans can and do endure a lot.


It was torn down in the late 80's I believe.



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20 Dec 2010, 11:31 pm

skafather84 wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]


Every conservative's dream land.


I assume you are aware that Walled City no longer exists.

ruveyn


I'd assume that a city that siphons power illegally wouldn't have too much longer to last. I had read about Kowloon before but at the time of the writing, I didn't realize it had been shut down.


I had read somewhere that the government had overlooked the illegal electricity theft to discourage people from lighting fires within the city for lighting.



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21 Dec 2010, 8:45 am

Chronos wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
And yet people choose to live there.


It's amazing what can become home.


And that the society still exists (thrives most likely isn't exactly the right word for it) isn't evidence of a success other than that humans can and do endure a lot.


It was torn down in the late 80's I believe.


It was completely deconstructed in the year 2003. Where this strange place used to be is now a park.

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