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      Actually it’s worse than that. The third world countries never got to develop their infrastructure, whereas the US got theirs early and just let it rot because maintaining it is not profitable.

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        The consequences of so much financializing of the economy, moving so much production elsewhere. Turns out imperialism has self-inflicted damage too.

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    New York being the international capital of the Capital and running its metro system on 18th century technology is fitting.