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Posted by Nilet on Sun Sep 15 05:13:18 2019, in response to Re: Central subway delayed -San Francisco, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Sep 14 19:05:23 2019. I've heard everything from the US and Canada insisting on reinventing the wheel with every project creating needless inefficiency to some aspect of the English language being naturally at odds with working for social good (so England has a less well developed society than France or Spain).But looking for any one cause is simplistic. After all, the US was good at this stuff in the 1950s and terrible today, and Italy can get high speed trains built today but couldn't even run the existing trains in the 1930s. (Which basically just tells us that fascism is inefficient, a fact I think everyone already knows.) Of course there's a deeper insight there— humans have a somewhat unfortunate tendency to be willing to make themselves suffer to hurt the people they hate, and there was a trend of white people in the 1960s tearing down vital infrastructure rather than let black people use it (see: public pools which proliferated until the Civil Rights Act passed only to become rather thin on the ground since then). This phenomenon can be replicated elsewhere (see: Brexit, or "I don't care if it craters the British economy as long as it hurts the Poles worse than me.") But even that's just one piece of the puzzle. I reiterate my earlier claim that looking for a single cause is simplistic. |
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