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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I'm cautiously optimistic that the burger empire will embrace HSR like the rest of the advanced world. America's competition is no longer the Soviet Union, but China.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not that optimistic, because "construction costs" in US are a big problem. As the line is announced, the land prices skyrocket and the government have to pay multiple times the old value to buy get the land.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You aren't wrong, I mean just looking at how it is making just getting a home while those homes are treated like Wall Street stocks. But the longer that the shit gets pushed out, the more it will cost anyway. Especially as private corps are literally buying up everything. So the corps should be just forced out without pay period. And the only people that should get paid anything are actual people and not the fake persons that we allow corps to be legally seen as. Only other exception would be if land is native land, and plans for shit should be forced to not go through it.

Are the ideas above legal? Hell no, but fucking corps aren't people and they already get their money from fucking over people and from getting all the tax cuts and exemptions for everything anyway. We have already been letting corps own the current rail lines and is a shining example as to why they should be purged for the benefit of the people.

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