Public facilities had become their last refuge, and then the bustling areas during the day turned into gray market zones rampant with underhand dealings at night, places even the police were reluctant to visit.
Now, many in China are advocating for land privatization, even wanting to allow farmers to put their land on the market for sale and purchase.
But those vested interests would never consider what would happen to dispossessed farmers once they went bankrupt in the cities?
Once a large amount of land is consolidated and farmers are driven into the cities, what would the cities look like when Chinese enterprises do not have that many job positions for laborers?
The highest urbanization rate in the world is in Brazil, where large conglomerates and private large landowners have bought up most of the farmland.
These landless farmers entered the cities and could only build one shantytown after another on the surrounding public land.
