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As an example of the sort of societal distortion I'm talking about, consider Elon Musk, who wanted people to buy his cars rather than take trains, and so lied a
by pwinnski 4y ago
As an example of the sort of societal distortion I'm talking about, consider Elon Musk, who wanted people to buy his cars rather than take trains, and so lied about a fantastical system of tunnels he would surely build, and... well, the quote is "So the Hyperloop, for example, he admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project and to get in the way of that actually succeeding."[0]
That's a recent example of a single person behaving incredibly badly, but a list of people using their wealth to do things like disport beach access, reduce housing options, badly mistreat employees, and so on, it would be endless.
0. https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788 https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-...
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoIf the California High Speed Rail project was ever going to succeed - it would've went from Los Angeles to San Diego (118 miles almost entirely densely populated). The fact that they planned for it to go from Los Angeles to the Bay (340+ miles almost entirely nothing) is pretty strong evidence that basically everyone involved was only trying to win elections and not really make HSR happen. Los Angeles to San Diego is makes much more sense. Just having a bullet train from the West Side to DTLA to Long Beach to somewhere in OC would've had massively higher ridership and cost less money. Everyone involved just wanted to waste money to win elections (and to no surprise, it worked). I hate Elon as much as anyone. If he even played a small part in this - the much larger blame goes to the politicians.