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Two competing factors: (1) Organized crime is heavily involved in large scale construction and doesn’t even have the ethos of doing a good job at it like in so
by eschaton 8y ago
Two competing factors:
(1) Organized crime is heavily involved in large scale construction and doesn’t even have the ethos of doing a good job at it like in some other parts of the world. All it’s about is funneling money from the municipality or state to the criminal enterprise, and only minimal effort is put forth for the ostensible purpose of a project.
(2) There has been an almost century long propaganda campaign in the United States specifically to make people believe Government cannot actually work in any meaningful capacity, by interests that ultimately want to dismantle it and distribute the spoils among themselves.
This intensified massively starting in the 1990s after the American right wing saw what happened to the Soviet Union’s infrastructure during privatization. By systematically discrediting Government, they want to have the same thing happen via privatization.