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Athelstan ,
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@yogthos
I didn't know California is a private company

yogthos OP ,
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California isn’t a private company, but it relies on private capital to do infrastructure development. Hope that clears things up for you.

EherNicht ,

Because they do not have money due to too expensive road maintenance?

Athelstan ,
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@yogthos
But the decision-making process is supposed to be done by the state, right?

yogthos OP ,
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When your whole economy is organized around private ownership then the role of the state is to primarily mediate between different capitalist interests. It’s not like California has public sector capacity to deliver large scale projects that way state owned enterprise does in China.

velox_vulnus ,

The fact that private companies work on public infrastructure must be one of the wildest cultural shock to anyone who is a non-American.

DivineDev ,

This happens in Europe as well.

EherNicht ,

This CAN actually make sense… if done right… which it is often not due to corruption.

RacoonVegetable ,

Are you really saying that Elon is the reason America doesn’t have high speed rail?

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LemmyHead ,

Sounds ridiculous to me. If politicians didn’t decide on the rail system because of elon, it’s still a problem caused by the politicians

yogthos OP ,
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I’d say Elon is a symptom of an underlying problem which is relying on private capital to provide infrastructure.

keepcarrot ,

He’s a reason, but not a total one by any stretch

TheSlad ,

Elon has all but admitted that the hyperloop was just a distraction to derail California’s public rail plans, and now that thay ship has sailed he doesnt give a shit about hyperloop anymore. The Hyperloop concept is literally just a tool that Elon uses to prevent development of public transport in California so that people will buy more teslas instead.

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