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Because our politicians patrons are rentier capitalists who think the government spending money on things is a waste of their money. So yeah they really hate sp
by Gibbon1 2y ago
Because our politicians patrons are rentier capitalists who think the government spending money on things is a waste of their money. So yeah they really hate spending money on transit projects.
Doesn't help that we're at the end stages of a debt driven real estate/rent price spiral. That means acquiring land for mass transit is twice as expensive as it should be. Ditto labor costs.
- astrange 2y agoThere's no "they" here. You're describing like five different groups that aren't aligned with each other, and most of them aren't capitalists. Japan is capitalist, more so than California.