haha train go brrrrrr

  • ARVSPEX [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Already, too much spending has gone on serving areas where the population is too small and low-income to make high-speed rail viable.

    Maybe building better transport infrastructure so the area is not as isolated would help? Crazy thought, I know.

    • quartz [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, then they start complaining about not emptying out the peasant-lands and pouring into singular megacities. Like there's no fucking history in China relating to the rural peasantry. Like there wasn't a whole fucking revolution partially relating to farming collectivization and stringing up landlords.

      Like there's not a god dang sickle intertwined with the hammer. Fucking myopic.

    • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Maybe building better transport infrastructure so the area is not as isolated would help? Crazy thought, I know.

      Nah, that's not really the problem. The problem is that good public transport is in opposition to the profit motive that privatization and capitalism enforce. You will always have population centers that bring you a lot of revenue, and a lot of small places that have few means of transportations and small population (not necessary poor even), that will only incur costs.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Sounds like someone hasn't read their BASIC ECONOMICS!

      Supply line go up, demand line go down. You can't explain that.