WOW! The Crazy Story Of How A Skyscraper Became A 45-Story Slum.

This video has more stories than a skyscraper has floors. At 0:32, we get some background on what can happen if a country’s banking system fails. At 0:52, we see what happens when a fed-up population meets an empty building. By 4:20, we are introduced to some of the residents and the results are… surprising.

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Aug 15, 2013

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