New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers, new research finds

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Leasy said:
America doing something about infrastructure :mjlol:. Major cities still utilizing subway and train rails from the 1800 to early 1900s. Embarrassing how Chinaand Japan has passed America
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FACTS...:hhh: japan bulletrain infrastructure is incredible America dont even want to try & bring that shyt here because of politics and bullshyt...
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American infrastructure is like 70 years behind the rest of the world and no one wants to do anything about it
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This country can't do anything big anymore.

No big ideas, plans, projects etc.

The next time your city announces some major project, compare the initial renderings/concept with what eventually happens.

It's like this with everything. Whether it's a new law to address a major issue, or some development.

This country is about promising whatever is necessary to secure the bag, and then producing whatever leaves you with the greatest profit w/o added liability.

At every step someone is there to grab a share w/o adding anything to the overall effort. An environmental group will sue to slow everything down. Construction consultants will jack up the costs. NIMBYs will NIMBY. Right wingers will cut the funding bc public transportation is unamurrican. Politicians will refuse to support it bc someone from the opposite party may have conceived of the plan.
 
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GnauzBookOfRhymes said:
This country can't do anything big anymore.

No big ideas, plans, projects etc.

The next time your city announces some major project, compare the initial renderings/concept with what eventually happens.

It's like this with everything. Whether it's a new law to address a major issue, or some development.

This country is about promising whatever is necessary to secure the bag, and then producing whatever leaves you with the greatest profit w/o added liability.

At every step someone is there to grab a share w/o adding anything to the overall effort. An environmental group will sue to slow everything down. Construction consultants will jack up the costs. NIMBYs will NIMBY. Right wingers will cut the funding bc public transportation is unamurrican. Politicians will refuse to support it bc someone from the opposite party may have conceived of the plan.
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I want to say something to counter this, but you're absolutely right. We're a big cruise ship that's slowly sinking.

Only thing that will change it, is something knocking us off our high horse. Like an economic 9/11.
 
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Charles Foster Kane said:
I want to say something to counter this, but you're absolutely right. We're a big cruise ship that's slowly sinking.

Only thing that will change it, is something knocking us off our high horse. Like an economic 9/11.
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We've had two in the last 15 years breh.

It's not a "knocking off" as much as a slow slide. That's what makes it harder to counter.
 
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We've had two in the last 15 years breh.

It's not a "knocking off" as much as a slow slide. That's what makes it harder to counter.
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I don't think those were 9/11 level believe it or not.

Had the FED not stepped in in 2008, then yes...that would've been 9/11 level. Covid and the subsequent inflation/market volatility is reminiscent of the 1970's and not 9/11 level.

I think the next economic 9/11 level events are 1 of 3 things; AI eroding jobs faster than new ones replace the eliminated ones AND/OR a multitude of countries dropping the dollar entirely. Both seemingly have more than an outside chance of happening before the US puts mitigations in place, because politicians don't do anything. No one alive in a position of power or contextualization remembers the last great challenges for this country; The Great Depression/World War II, so we don't really do anything to prevent because we don't think it can happen or rather can't imagine it happening.

Been saying since like 2015, 2030 is going to be a serious reckoning for the US.
 
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Charles Foster Kane said:
I don't think those were 9/11 level believe it or not.

Had the FED not stepped in in 2008, then yes...that would've been 9/11 level. Covid and the subsequent inflation/market volatility is reminiscent of the 1970's and not 9/11 level.

I think the next economic 9/11 level events are 1 of 3 things; AI eroding jobs faster than new ones replace the eliminated ones AND/OR a multitude of countries dropping the dollar entirely. Both seemingly have more than an outside chance of happening before the US puts mitigations in place, because politicians don't do anything. No one alive in a position of power or contextualization remembers the last great challenges for this country; The Great Depression/World War II, so we don't really do anything to prevent because we don't think it can happen or rather can't imagine it happening.

Been saying since like 2015, 2030 is going to be a serious reckoning for the US.
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There are millions of people today who never recovered from 2008.

The pandemic was the final nail in the coffin for many ideas/norms/expectations that underpinned American society like home ownership and the idea that an education and our dynamic economy essentially guarantees a decent job.

The problem with making comparisons to the 70s/80s is that back then the government, whether Dem or GOP, could function as a unit. Back then partisanship didn't yet require that you view every emergency as an opportunity. Kind of like what I mentioned in the first post.

Instead you have shyt like what's going on with the debt ceiling (again).

I don't think the dollar is in trouble. At the end of the day it's all about trust and who you have in your corner. Europe will always stand with the US over China. Once Putin is gone they will be even tighter in the US embrace. Our economy is unequal but is still growing. I think people abroad still have faith that their investments in the US will never be DIRECTLY influenced/handled/appropriated by political considerations. I don't know that they would say the same for China right now.
 
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