• Throwaway@lemm.ee
    3213·
    9 months ago

    Its a lot easier when you have slave labor and don’t care about the enviroment or human lives

    • Scrof@sopuli.xyz
      276·
      9 months ago

      It unquestionably is but it sounds like you’re implying that high speed rail is some sort of utopian megaproject and not a solved problem of basic, reliable and effective infrastructure that is a great bang for your buck in every country that builds it.

      • bestnerd@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 months ago

        I mean we actually own land in the US where it’s not owned by a person in the same sense in China. So it’s easier for the government to cease it and do whatever it wants with it

    • iminahurry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      223·
      9 months ago

      I understand what this comment is trying to say, but I doubt US is very big on caring about environment. Remind me, how many fracking projects?

    • jormaig@programming.dev
      81·
      9 months ago

      Spain has the lowest cost per kilometer in the world when it comes to building High Speed train (14.5 million €/km) and they care for the environment and don’t have slave labour. Rather, they have very strong unions.

    • oo1@kbin.social
      4·
      9 months ago

      Like in Spain with much smaller economy and almost 4 thousand km - admittedly they started back in the 1990s I think.

    • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      9 months ago

      It’s also a lot easier when you cut costs and all the rails will be unused in a few years due to poor construction materials.

      Tofu Dreg construction and corruption is very real in China.