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[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 144 points 1 year ago

Giant infrastructure projects are a weakness of democracies. It's tough to get everyone to agree and pay for huge projects that take long term vision and planning.

Or you could call it a strength because it's stable and can't be changed too fast by one guy with a short term bad idea.

[-] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it has more to do with the lack of democracy, especially in the US. I guarantee you could get 100 regular Joes in a room to come up with a high speed rail project. You could never get that to happen with politicians at the mercy of the ruling class.

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