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In the US we can thank the early railroad barrons owning congress.
At the time of the early railroad barons, China still had an Emperor and was ravaged by Opium addiction.
Ravaged by opium addiction because the Europeans realized they could make huge profits by getting people addicted. Fun fact, when China decided they would ban opium Britain sent the war ships and bombed the fuck out of them and ripped entire cities away from China, put them under British rule, and gave all Europeans total immunity from Chinese law within those cities so they could be full blown hives of scum and villainy with official clearance by the crown.
Those were one-r barons. Two rs are for trumps
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.
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 am from the United States and while I think that we used to lead the world, I have to acknowledge that China has us with our pants around our ankles. American exceptionalism is dead.
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Doesn’t China have questionable safety records?
Your whole world built by them
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
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?”
Doesn’t USA?
USA isn’t even talking a big game. It’s just the usual racism, patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.
