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I would chalk this up to growing pains. Odd things can happen when you have a sustained double-digit economic expansion (and 8% growth during a global economic recession).
I imagine even odder things would have occurred if the U.S. or some other developed nation had this kind of expansion over the past several years. Civil engineering coupled with billions of dollars can produce wild things. Look at Dubai.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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