I dont think american trains have any incentive to get better. it works sort of good enough and people pay, why care about speed or comfort? in "europe" and re

I dont think american trains have any incentive to get better. it works sort of good enough and people pay, why care about speed or comfort? in "europe" and really they mean germany and france, switzerland in particular, not actual "all of europe" - there is a minimum coverage the company has to achieve ands it cant "get out of it". Same thing for cellphone coverage and internet coverage. Heck, France is starting to get a lot of FTTH everywhere (free install, less than 30e/mo for 100mit) because of these requirements. The bay area can keep dreaming on getting something else than comcast at 30mbit coaxial cable for 60 bucks/mo + have to buy modem and tech if not wired. Basically, capitalism-all-the-things don't work very well with monopolies and corrupted organizations/cities/countries. socio-capitalism isnt the greatest but it works a little better.