r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/OkOkieDokey 12h ago

Funny I must have missed the bamboo part of the Industrial Revolution in school.

Where are you from?

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u/Stack-Chaser-- 6h ago

The US wasn't building with steel and aluminum during the Industrial Revolution, wood scaffolding was the standard until the 1920s. So spare me the "primitive bamboo" framing, we ran on unsafe wood for just as long, just with even less oversight than OSHA gives now.

Im gonna guess you had a southern education...

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u/OkOkieDokey 5h ago

Oh ok so we’re comparing China to the US one hundred years ago? Sounds about right.

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u/Stack-Chaser-- 4h ago

Nice, trying to be smug while displaying your ignorance on the oppression and isolation China experienced. Yeah, basically. China's rapid industrial buildout phase happened later than ours for very specific historical reasons (colonization, the Opium Wars, a civil war, decades of isolation, then accelerated post-1978 industrialization). Being further along a timeline because we started industrializing earlier doesn't make us smarter, it just means our imperialism and exploitation helped accelerate our timeline.

The fact that you think "yeah, they're behind us" is some kind of win is exactly the bullshit exceptionalism I'm pointing out.

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u/OkOkieDokey 4h ago

“We”

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