The original charter city
In a recent essay "Let's build Hong Kong 2.0 here in the UK," Sam Bowman, director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, wrote that "advocates of charter cities want to replicate the success of Hong Kong and Singapore."
但是
The legacy of that system can be seen in Hong Kong today, one of the most unequal societies on earth, with low wages and stratospheric rents that force many people to live in tiny apartments or even so-called "cage homes," sharing a small, much-subdivided space with dozens of others. The city is also hugely dependent on a class of low-paid migrant workers, many of whom are forced to live with their employers and earn less than the already low minimum wage of $4.80 per hour.
說清楚,鬼佬識條鐵!
John Mok, an academic at the University of California, Irvine, who studies Hong Kong, said that Western thinkers "always frame Hong Kong as an economically liberal city with good liberal values."
"We Hong Kongers know very well that the gap between rich and poor is very, very wide," he said.
外媒話,有錢人會引入資金到當地!
對!全對!
可惜,不是所有人都富有!新香港是富人專利嗎?