# Will Not End Well:  Chinese Profligacy Hits New Heights

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 10, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-not-end-well-chinese-profligacy-hits-new-heights/599216 "2011-10-10T20:01:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-not-end-well-chinese-profligacy-hits-new-heights/599216/21 "2011-10-12T05:31:09Z")

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> [@Huerta88](#):
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> [http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2011/10/10/8252200-chinese-village-unveils-skyscraper-taller-than-the-chrysler-building](http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/10/8252200-chinese-village-unveils-skyscraper-taller-than-the-chrysler-building)
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> These guys clearly did not read the Old Testament. They achieved a golden calf and Tower of Babel perfecta.
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> Combined with those satellite pictures of the empty cities in the Mongolian desert – I don’t see how we’re not headed for a crash that even a command economy can’t undo.

Oh this is just perfect.

Let’s all chip in and buy the Westboro church crowd some round trip tickets so they can go picket.

It’ll be worth wasting the return fair to be rid of them… 😃

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-not-end-well-chinese-profligacy-hits-new-heights/599216/22 "2011-10-13T22:37:01Z")

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> [@appleciders](#):
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> Wow. That is an actual one ton gold statue of an ox.

Really? At the current price of gold that would be worth over $50 million.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-not-end-well-chinese-profligacy-hits-new-heights/599216/23 "2011-10-13T23:03:18Z")

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> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> The Chinese are…interesting.

True, but at least they can go [shopping](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_China_Mall)…

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