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Healthcare? Renewables? Carbon sequestration? Cybersec? Underground power lines? Housing? Repairing existing roads & bridges? Education? There is so much we co

• ddingus 5y ago
  Tons of work to do, I agree. The political will to do it, fund it properly just is not there. Many want private entities to do it, many do not and that logjam has gotten in the way of a lot. And there are teardowns. The Post Office has been damaged for politics, for example. Private entities want more of the business and do not want to compete with the PO. Or, they want the PO to work for them at a loss or as a subsidy. There is a reluctance to make big public investments. There should not be.
• Retric 5y ago
  Those are more complicated than just building infrastructure. Take healthcare, having more hospital buildings or equipment isn’t a fix. Same with education we don’t need more school buildings. Cybersecurity is again not solved by building more servers. Carbon sequestration is an open technical problem without any known scalable solutions. Under grand power lines and roads run into the same issue, building more means you need to maintain more. The solution to pot holes and old bridges are to remove old bridges and roads until we can afford what’s already built. Renewables are the only pure infrastructure problem, but we are actually building a lot of Renewables. Look at the ratio of new wind/solar vs new coal/natural gas and the grid is only going in one direction. We could spend a lot more going faster, but the end result would be the same.