"Infatuation" has a negative connotation. Infrastructure is generally built and well-maintained when the country has lots of spare money. Like the US in the 19

"Infatuation" has a negative connotation. Infrastructure is generally built and well-maintained when the country has lots of spare money. Like the US in the 1950s and 1960s. And like China today. When countries get short of cash, they tend to let maintenance of infrastructure lapse. It's roughly estimated that to fix the US's crumbling infrastructure it would cost about 2-3 trillion dollars. That's 2-3 trillion dollars that the US doesn't have easily to hand.