[ExI] vaccines again

[Will Steinberg]

High speed rail fails in this country because of economically inefficient
lobbying with war chests filled by monopolistic corporations.  Our
regulations actually promote this, we pretty much have a monoparty crony
capitalist kleptocracy in my humble opinion.  I am pro market, anti big
government, anti big corporation.  At least as it stands, both are too
susceptible to rot.

Plenty of economically successful countries have high speed rail, and most
of them have better test scores than us too.

I'm all about freedom and I love America but we are doing a lot wrong and
the future is grim if we don't make a lot of changes.  Your head will be
frozen while I'm dealing with this shit so forgive me if I seem overly
concerned with it.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 6:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
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> >…First off, being against high-speed rail is painfully retarded.  The
> amount of good it does for commerce, culture, economy is massive.  Not to
> mention ou country looks like shit when everyone else does it better.  Rail
> is economically efficient…
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> High speed rail: Investors won’t come.  Evidence: they didn’t.  Result:
> governments must pay for it.  Result: governments compete against free
> enterprise and fail.  Evidence: the California high speed rail is waaaay
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> https://www.constructiondive.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-costs-rise-to-105-billion/618877/
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> I don’t see why we need high speed rail when planes leave the major
> airports regularly.  That is why the investors didn’t come.  It will never
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