Quoted By:
From /sci/, where burgerniggers are coping by saying trains are inferior and stupid anyway
>The capacity to build high speed rail is unironically like the shopping cart test except on a society wide scale.
>It requires a society to invest money into something that will not be profitable in and of itself, and requires them to have the foresight to know that the benefits will be to broader society by making cities more easily and rapidly accessible. Selfish nigger societies can never build high speed railways for this reason. They get too bogged down either debating whether it will work, or demanding money for more immediate effects (and then wonder why their society decays over a longer time scale). It requires people to actually be invested in something that will benefit the common good, not just themselves.
>Clearly the USA fails every single one of these criteria, so of course they, and other (mostly boomer dominated Anglo societies) countries like New Zealand and Australia also fail, and they will also fail long term. Western Europe used to be the kind of place that would build high speed rail, but nowadays they would sooner spend that money on refugee gibs.
>Countries like China where the people are capable of long term planning and just getting something done, or Japan and Taiwan, where people still seem to give a shit about society as a whole, are the countries that will dominate the future.
>>/sci/13502176
This seems to be reasonably accurate imo, there's a real culture of selfishness and short sightedness that gets in the way of public works in the US
