Should have spent the money on bombs and missiles. Again, gusanos accidentally make China look based.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Because they know something that capitalists forget in the last few decades, that infrastructure investments migh be not profitable in itself but pays off like nothing else in economy.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        17
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Of course, but it’s the biggest problem in neoliberalism: everything must make a profit. They are btw aware of the paradox, just look how they privatised rail in UK or Poland. USians are currently making a step further, everything must bring a profit, and thus we see their infrastructure deteriorating rapidly.

      • quality_fun
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        true, but the money required to build it doesn’t come out of nowhere.

        • sinovictorchan
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          The US waste more on public military violence than the ~10 richest countries conbined, give tons of free taxpayer money to their oligarch from the authoritarian principles of “too big to fail” and “trickle down theory”, and bribe mainstream news to spread false information. If the US can maintain its economic superpower status despite its top world record of countries that waste the most public money, then I would not understand the opposition to the investment in public infrastructures that have short-term cost for long-term benefits to society.