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The railroad buildout was a lot more, idk, tangible. Most of that money was spent employing millions of people to smelt iron, lay track, build bridges, blow up
by hyperbovine 6mo ago
The railroad buildout was a lot more, idk, tangible. Most of that money was spent employing millions of people to smelt iron, lay track, build bridges, blow up mountains, etc. It’s a lot more exciting than a few freight loads of overpriced GPUs.
- wr2 6mo agoAlso a good point - railroads for sure brought a lot more optimism. LLMs+Data centres on the other hand...