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There are plenty of countries winning gold medals for massive infrastructure projects while the richest one can’t even get into college

• maccard 6mo ago
  The comment I replied to said: > Funny how every other developed country manages to build more infrastructure cheaper despite having stronger unions and stricter regulations. I picked a handful of absolutely colossal overspends on massive infra projects to point out that no, not every other western country is doing so. All countries have their success stories and mega disaster projects
  • testing22321 6mo ago
    > All countries have their success stories and mega disaster projects What mega project success stories does the US have in the last 20 or 30 years?
    • _DeadFred_ 6mo ago
      We just sent people around the moon. James Webb is uncovering a ton COVID vaccines
      • testing22321 6mo ago
        The US did all those before (and they were huge successes) it’s just re-learning what it already did.
        • maccard 6mo ago
          So is building a new train line, or a highway/motorway, or a nuclear reactor.