This is a truly incredible article that criticizes China's plans to build high speed rail to under-served parts of China by taking the angle that it won't make money, and therefore is stupid. Amazing that infrastructure projects that help rural Chinese gain access to a high speed rail network is criticized from the angle of profit-making when making a profit is never the point with infrastructure projects. The NYC subway system wasn't built to "make a profit," but that doesn't mean it was a bad idea. But China bad so somehow them building a crazy amount of high speed rail is bad.
Man I compare stuff like this to the US and it's tragic. I literally read an article today about the USPS that claimed that the USPS should be running like a business when it's currently not, and praised the cuts in the name of efficiency.
Literally why can't we fund something that costs a fraction of the police or military budget that's just straight up for the people? Does everything have to be run like a goddamn business? Why? No one says that the police lose money every year. I shouldn't have to pay $15 to send a literal letter to family in the rural USA because that's what the market decided was a fair price. I'm so tired of this mentality.