the dutch are really doing their darndest to make neoliberalism look cool
Coasting on the royalties from capitalism for the past 300 years.
You'd think it'd be easy, but Britain coasted over the edge of an abandoned quarry and it looks as though the US is following a similar fate.
How? They're a former colonial force and they're a tax haven, of course they have money for this shit. They're just not completely 100% deranged by individualist ideology like the US, just like 90%.
I mean it's mostly they have some of the better infrastructure projects in the west. Everyone else enjoys watching everything fall apart
They’re just not completely 100% deranged by individualist ideology like the US, just like 90%.
I mean
This would never happen in Amerikkka. I know people are trying to turn the LA river into a river again, instead of the huge dry concrete canal it is currently. I think they've managed to re-river about 1% of it within Los Angeles.
Removing a highway to put in a river/canal is unthinkable here.