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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]here's the thing:

It's easier to build a high tech infrastructure when you have to start from scratch.  Both Japan and S. Korea were decimated after WWII.  The US poured money into both countries. Even so, the high tech infrastructure in S. Korea is relatively new, probably the last 10 years or so.

Most of the US infrastructure is now pretty old.   It's harder to modernize when there is already an (old) infrastructure in place.

Example: the infrastructure in the UK is pretty old.  Their underground metro is the oldest in the world.  They don't have a/c in the majority of their subway cars or platforms.  DC at least does have that.  BUT, I will say that their payment platform is more advanced than ours.

Part of the problem with the US is that it's disjointed.  Individual states rights and all that, and the deregulation of so much of our infrastructure.  It's a hot mess.

Example: the EU has forced companies like Apple to be more compatible with other devices. It forced them to allow USB-C chargers on Apple products.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/eu-makes-usb-c-mandatory-for-apple-iphones-and-other-devices.html

If Apple can do that in the EU, why can't they in the US?  Because capitalism and low regulation. Despite what some people think, the US  has one of the lowest regulations in the developed world.

Imagine if the US tried to build a high speed rail between NY and LA.  Think about all the states that the rail would have to go through, and then think about all the individual states asserting its rights.  Other countries don't have that problem.

This is why the US infrastructure will never be able to progress like that of other countries.[/quote]

Or its because we have stupid cars. How many billions did MD piss away on express lanes for I95 and the ICC over the years, for example?  Now they want to piss away even more money on widening the Beltway in the region.

All Americans ever have are excuses for their crappy infrastructure, there's never any admission of guilt and accepting responsibility for the fact that the development of the country has fallen so far behind advanced countries for the last 50 years.[/quote]

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