- cross-posted to:
- latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40124950
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In the US we can thank the early railroad barrons owning congress.
Those were one-r barons. Two rs are for trumps
How about hard-r’s?
Also for trumps
Doesn’t China have questionable safety records?
Your whole world built by them
Doesn’t USA?
No. They have a massive incentive to keep infrastructure working, whereas the US can just let bridges collapse and never even bother rebuilding them because there is no incentives. The primary source of questions are from Western news media asking “but at what cost?”
Dunno, but of the stuff I’ve heard of lately, the bridges that randomly collapse or planes that fall out of the sky because of design defects were American.
Hongqi bridge (红旗大桥) collapse last month after been open for a few months? https://yewtu.be/05uD-gXJkI4
Same with power generation/grid. The EU is finally realising that if they want everyone to go electric they are massively fuckt in terms of clean electricity generation and power distribution. Meanwhile we had china’s power grid as a case study in uni because it’s way ahead of ours.
I have used the Chinese high speed rail and it’s awesome. Better than flyingnand and so cheap. I am so jealous.
In California’s defense, we’re getting there.
Slowly.
Many, many vedted interests have tried to stop, deflect, delay, refund or shape the project and work into whatever will be least used and successful. The auto industry and oil industry, now also the ev companies including Tesla have a huge stake in not having Americans experience how dependable, useful, quick, clean and pleasant HSR is.
Once you try it you can’t go back to short and mid-range car and plane trips.
Hyperloop has been dead for years now, actually it was from the start, just nobody was actually thinking or they have other interests, like grab as much money out of it as possible.
Yeah that’s infrastructure under capitalism. Explains the entire USA basically.
Hyperloop is an idiotic concept. The investment needed to build a network of functional hundreds, or thousands of miles long vacuum tunnels, and the maintenance needed, makes it unviable.
Much easier and cheaper to build high speed rail.
USA isn’t even talking a big game. It’s just the usual racism, patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.
I am from the United States and while I think that we used to the lead the world, I have to acknowledge that China has us with our pants around our ankles. American exceptionalism is dead.
American exceptionalism got us into this mess
Wanna sneak peak of the US in 50 years? Look at the present day UK.
