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None of the things you mentioned are useless at all. High Speed Rail (and other Megaprojects) get even more expansive the longer you dont build them. We need to
by preisschild 2y ago
None of the things you mentioned are useless at all. High Speed Rail (and other Megaprojects) get even more expansive the longer you dont build them. We need to fund it even when its expansive, because that money is also spent on recruiting and training new workers, rebuilding supply chains and so on.
And the F-35 was the first mass produced Generation 5 fighter and it still is the only one. Definitely not useless for deterring enemies of freedom such as Iran, Russia and China.
- preisschild 2y agoI'd even argue that ITER is more useless than both your examples. High Speed Rail and modern defense do not have good alternatives to them. Fusion has an alternative: Fission. Sure, it might not be as sustainable in the long term (although with wide deployment of Breeder Reactors it might be), but we have enough Uranium for the short term anyway. And we have many decades of experience with them, how to deploy them most economically, how to use them with the least downtime (more than 90% uptime in many reactors) and so on.