China debuts 281mph bullet train while the united states still using shyt our ancestors built.

[GunRanger]

They are simply going through what we went through almost a century ago with the establishment and building of National highways.

The difference is that now technology exists to build these fast ass trains whereas when we established our highways, it did not.

Oil and car companies actively lobbied against public transportation during that period. A lot of cities were denser, and more walkable than now, and were deliberately made car dependent

 

[HabitualChiller]

If you saw how slow it moves out in America, you’d probably be less optimistic.

Baltimore bridge got knocked down last year in that accident, don’t even know the status in that.

Edit, update:
$100 billion spent on the bridge, should be finished in 2028. That’s a short ass bridge compared to an international train network.

Yeah, if they started to build the infrastructure for HSR today, that shít would MAYBEEEEE be finished in 2060.

Fúcked up thing is that, that's including a new technology being developed to make it easier.

 

[diggy]

We can't even drive or be around 80-100 mph shyt in Florida

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Took a train across the UK (south to north). America is beholden to the car lobby, big oil, airline lobby etc.

Capitalism in America isn't really "free market." It's welfare for The 1% and dog-eat-dog for everyone else.

Capitalize the gains
Socialize the losses

 

[IIVI]

Yeah, if they started to build the infrastructure for HSR today, that shít would MAYBEEEEE be finished in 2060.

Fúcked up thing is that, that's including a new technology being developed to make it easier.

Yup. China is 1.5 billion people, if that’s 1:1 we’re talking x5 the manpower because it’s 1.5 billion vs 300 million.

It does not seem too bad when you think of small projects: 1 year vs 5 to finish something or 3 years vs 15. People can live with that.

However, when you get to bigger numbers it starts to unveil itself more:
If it takes China 15 years to do something, then it’d probably take us approximately 75 years to do the same. That’s 75 years where a lot can happen.

If China can build something in 20 years, it’d take us approximately 100 to do the same.

Europe is significantly smaller than America:


Additionally, Europe is over twice the population of America.

There is a lot of strength in numbers. It’s a very underrated factor. However, at the end of the day it’s still a scalar factor that is a multiplier.

Plus that’s with China already so much more advanced when it comes to manufacturing.

 

[null]

What's the return value?

a very american question

 

[The G.O.D II]

Why are you all obsessed with China and their “superiority” yall really want slave labor, even more deregulation, etc for something as pointless as a bullet train?

 

[Harry Sax]

We got the brightline train coming thru my it’s at 80mphs and that shyt killed about 10 people in the first 6 months

 

[mastermind]

Yup. China is 1.5 billion people, if that’s 1:1 we’re talking x5 the manpower because it’s 1.5 billion vs 300 million.

It does not seem too bad when you think of small projects: 1 year vs 5 to finish something or 3 years vs 15. People can live with that.

However, when you get to bigger numbers it starts to unveil itself more:
If it takes China 15 years to do something, then it’d probably take us approximately 75 years to do the same. That’s 75 years where a lot can happen

The NY underground subway system was built in like 10 years

 

[Firefly]

It would open up opportunity to people who are supposed to be the lower caste in America. You know the people who have been strategically deprived so that the most insecure and wealthy can feel good about themselves. If they start seeing people moving around to different places getting easier access to opportunities this country would collapse lol. It's never about the country being prosperous as a whole, just a select few.

 

[patscorpio]

yeah but trannies are reading to kids in libraries and we gotta send 20 billion to israel

how can we possibly focus on this

catch rep

 

[Houston911]

@Loose shyt sounds insane when you word it like that

 

[010101]

out east work is their religion*

 

[Traveler]

Yup. China is 1.5 billion people, if that’s 1:1 we’re talking x5 the manpower because it’s 1.5 billion vs 300 million.

It does not seem too bad when you think of small projects: 1 year vs 5 to finish something or 3 years vs 15. People can live with that.

However, when you get to bigger numbers it starts to unveil itself more:
If it takes China 15 years to do something, then it’d probably take us approximately 75 years to do the same. That’s 75 years where a lot can happen.

If China can build something in 20 years, it’d take us approximately 100 to do the same.

Europe is significantly smaller than America:


Additionally, Europe is over twice the population of America.

There is a lot of strength in numbers. It’s a very underrated factor. However, at the end of the day it’s still a scalar factor that is a multiplier.

Plus that’s with China already so much more advanced when it comes to manufacturing.

It's not more advanced it's just cheaper. Wages are significantly less. The govt can just take land and force people to work for slave wages. Can't do that here.

 

[null]

There is a lot of strength in numbers. It’s a very underrated factor. However, at the end of the day it’s still a scalar factor that is a multiplier.

Plus that’s with China already so much more advanced when it comes to manufacturing.

just build a HSL from NYC to WAS.

simple.



what's the problem?