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The American 1% would not shed a tear if, after they and corps inevitably suck up 90% of the US wealth, the American leeches/takers/moochers end up like that. Ayn Rand down in would obviously be pleased.
77-year-old Yeung Ying Biu sits inside his 1.5 square meter (16 square feet) cage, which he calls home, in Hong Kong. Pic: AP.
The 67-year-old former butcher pays 1,300 Hong Kong dollars ($167) a month for one of about a dozen wire mesh cages resembling rabbit hutches crammed into a dilapidated apartment in a gritty, working-class West Kowloon neighborhood.
The cages, stacked on top of each other, measure 1.5 square meters (16 square feet). To keep bedbugs away, Leung and his roommates put thin pads, bamboo mats, even old linoleum on their cages’ wooden planks instead of mattresses.
“I’ve been bitten so much I’m used to it,” said Leung, rolling up the sleeve of his oversized blue fleece jacket to reveal a red mark on his hand. “There’s nothing you can do about it. I’ve got to live here. I’ve got to survive,” he said as he let out a phlegmy cough.
Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what’s known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group. The category also includes apartments subdivided into tiny cubicles or filled with coffin-sized wood and metal sleeping compartments as well as rooftop shacks. They’re a grim counterpoint to the southern Chinese city’s renowned material affluence.
The other side of the property boom: HK’s poor living in cages - >>
The American 1% would not shed a tear if, after they and corps inevitably suck up 90% of the US wealth, the American leeches/takers/moochers end up like that. Ayn Rand down in would obviously be pleased.
heads even pay for s like this when they can buy a tent and settle under the bridge where they can live more comfortably, rather than sleep in the smell of other people's piss and feces
I thought that was Max Von Sydow
At least he has dry land.
(to lazy to switch to my kevin costner screen name)
Is this what happens because we gave Hong Kong back to China?
Dude looks pretty good for 77.
Edit: Or is he 67? Still not bad but not as impressive.
Wtf? We ?gave Hong Kong back to china?
OK, I made a mistake. The UK gave Hong Kong back to China. Not us.
Let he who never made a mistake, cast the first stone.
they been living like that even b4 UK gave them back, just that it was reported or ppl didnt give a
Over population is not a problem and technology will save us.
My people are just fine. 1.5 x 1.5 cages are awesome and a luxury.
Next time, I'll post how some american vagrants live to compensate, and complain to the State Department.
Keep pushing it and I'll buy European stuff, not American.
Exactly. First time I was in HK, about 20 years ago, it was quite common and a very popular solution for college students with limited income.
will that effect you in buying that 78 piece socket tool set for 19.00 at walmart?
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