Hamartia Antidote
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It's not because Americans don't like bullet trains, it's because Americans don't have the luxury to try one in the first place.
US ambassdor to China very much impressed train from Beijing to Wuhuan on a bullet train.The distance between Beijing and Wuhan is 1100KM, The whole journey takes 4 hours by this bullet train.
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Nobody thinks bullet trains aren’t impressive.
It just isn’t practical to shoehorn in developed countries like the US where the cost to buyout the land and implement this nationwide would likely be in the $Trillions. The median home sales
price in the US is over $400,000. Multiply that to crisscross the country and it gets prohibitively expensive.
We aren’t a nation of poor farmers who can simply
be offered some new modern high rise apartment in exchange for their old farm shack.
You keep harping on this over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over but the problem is you simply can’t visualize what living in a developed country actually means.
It’s like trying to cut a new swath through the middle of Beijing in 2022. The cost to payoff people wouldn’t be worth it.
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