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Maybe I'm just looking at the past with rose-colored glasses, but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon. Now
by zyang 7y ago
Maybe I'm just looking at the past with rose-colored glasses, but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon. Now we rely on rate cuts and tax cuts to inflate our paper wealth. California couldn't build a high speed rail with all its wealth. Our astronauts had to hitch a ride with the Russians to get to ISS.
- JackFr 7y ago> but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon. The interstate system could be seen as a boondoggle to make automakers rich at the expense of the US having a modern rail network. Without question the moon landing and the Hoover Dam were historic engineering feats but they were both products of their eras. The Hoover Dam was a prewar Great Depression jobs effort and the moon landing would never have been possible but for the Cold War.