Transportation in our mountains doesn't have to be worse than theirs, just bad enough to prevent our farmers from farming the areas. One of the reasons Japan ha

Transportation in our mountains doesn't have to be worse than theirs, just bad enough to prevent our farmers from farming the areas. One of the reasons Japan has so much cool electronics is that a successful manufacturing run their is much smaller. A product could sell one tenth what it does in the US and still be seen as a success, but the the US one a failure.