The reddit user literally just completely made up the "to circumvent local government restriction" bit (and gets sent to the front page of r/all).
Whenever I see a post like this, I wonder if it was done by an individual or as part of a paid propaganda effort.
Link because I'm not a lib
Archive link in case it gets deleted
The sources literally linked by the OP:
Business Insider
The Guardian
I'd take being paid in gold bars to buy a house in China over the never being able to afford one in the US.
Actually, you need to pay the current property owner multiple times for the opportunity to have your offer considered.
To do otherwise is comulnizm
Whenever I see a post like this, I wonder if it was done by an individual or as part of a paid propaganda effort.
I feel like it's so engrained in Reddit's culture it's hard to say. What percentage of people actually read an article past the headline? How many people think they're accomplishing something by spouting off the same thing over and over before patting themselves on the back?
Hexbear has a fakenews comm specifically to identify this issue. The whole point is to post a fake story and wait for people to comment on it. The link is usually just like a rickroll or a fake news site like that says like abc.net/lmaogettem or whatever.
I hate it, but it's fantastic at weeding out people who don't even follow the link.
Whenever I see a post like this, I wonder if it was done by an individual or as part of a paid propaganda effort.
I feel like shit like has to come from some propaganda mill and then spreads across social media. It is possible that some creative private citizen invents these lies in a fit of racist or imperialist rage but chances of that seem low to me.
I actually don't know though. I think one thing that would help me understand this phenomenon would be if those sexpat China-hating YouTubers have some association with the state department or if social media platforms have made hatemongering a sustainable profession so that some people seek to do this on their own.
They’re racist so they make up stories about evil China in addition to the vanilla DOD propaganda
What local government? What developers? What buyers? Where? How about literally any context?
It’s literally just a picture of gold with Chinese characters on it. Typical liberal journalistic standards.
So housing prices are down and i literally get gold by buying a house?
Dollars (ha) to donuts that redditor is a libertarian goldbug himself. They believe aurum has the magical ability to stave off the clutches of tyrannical government control.
I've seen this kind of incentive thing for real estate in India. The approach is to lure you into buying a expensive property by offering you something shiny. Although Idk how people fall for it.
Surely the regular title is fine for them? Like, it's already kinda sus, implying that Chinese people are "lured" like an animal, or that they're greedy and love gold or something (weird how all racism seems to turn into anti-Semitic tropes if it gets elaborate enough.)
