[ExI] vaccines again

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] vaccines again

 

>…High speed rail fails in this country…

 

Agreed.

 

>…because of economically inefficient lobbying with war chests filled by monopolistic corporations…

 

Will this change?  No.  Currently we have the absurdity of federal government underwriting a high speed rail system in California.  So people in the densely populated east coast are paying for a railroad track on the west coast.  That makes no sense to me, and this is from one who lives near a proposed high speed rail station.  Imagine how the others must feel.

 

>…Our regulations actually promote this, we pretty much have a monoparty crony capitalist kleptocracy in my humble opinion…

 

Ja.  So let us not allow them to pay for a high speed rail system.  If that is going to pay, investors will come.  But investors didn’t.

 

>…I am pro market, anti big government, anti big corporation.  At least as it stands, both are too susceptible to rot…

 

Ja.  

 

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

 

No worries, we have the option to go to one of those successful countries to ride that.  it makes as much sense as having high speed rail on the opposite coast.

 

>…I'm all about freedom and I love America…

 

I do too Will.  All that is needed is a period after that sentence.

 

High speed rail will cost a ton of money but never pay off.  We have aircraft for what that system is supposed to do.  Investors came.  They paid.  It paid.  Done. 

 

spike

 

 

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