Is China 100 years ahead of your country in infrastructure?>America>Yes
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>>216690909US Infrastructure>Spend billions and billions of dollars on a highly visible public project>Politicians pocket all the money and spread it to their corrupt friends>Public/Taxpayers do nothing but whine>"Haha at least our infra doesn't collapse"Chink infrastructure>Chinks receive money but know they actually have to build something unlike in the US where they just take the money and the taxpayer doesn't do shit>Cut corners/skim money off the top because that's the only way corrupt officials can make money.>Someone gets exposed when this happens and heads roll (possibly literally if it's endangering lives)
>>216691261I'm talking about the California High Speed Rail and Eglinton Crosstown as two highly visible public projects where politicians/the rich steal billions with nothing to show for it
>>216691298>Eglinton Crosstown>US
>>216690909Looks like they are trying to shift the blame to landslide. And of course, no casualties. We will never know the truth.
>>216690909They will execute the guys responsible
>>216691378Just giving out examples of typical Western infrastructure corruption that I've seen. Western infrastructure doesn't collapse cause half the time it doesn't get built and the other times we spend 20 years on a project thats expected to take 2. Western infrastructure doesn't collapse because western politicians are so corrupt they don't even have to build anything to embezzle money. They don't even need to show their work and no one even bats an eye 90% of the time. We literally have highly visible projects (Eglinton Crosstown, California High Speed Rail) that literally get reported in all the newspapers and on TV and shit and our politicians still steal billions and no one bats an eye outside of some moaning about how the government sucks. Some bridge in the middle of nowhere collapsing is bad but somewhat excusable in that it's hard to tell what's going on in bum fuck nowhere but how they can literally steal billions from highly visible infra projects and no one even does anything
>>216691261Like 30% of China's GDP is in public works, you'd expect the things they build to not collapse. If a country isn't classed as developing and you're comparing infrastructure you're missing the point. Perhaps if the US wants to bring back socialist 5 year FDR style plans and repeat the 1960s then that's one things, but it's apples to oranges. The fact that there's bridges to nowhere would normally be a sign of corruption if and only if a country isn't classed as developing, it's why complaining about corruption in China is a moot point.
>>216691711Ack
>>216691585>Just giving out examples of typical Western infrastructurethat would be like me citing random asian countries infrastructure in an argument against chinayou're coping and seething so hard you arent even making any sense anymore
>>216691711>Apples to oranges>You're missing the point>Moot pointI don't even know what you're arguing anon but you sure dropped a bunch of buzz words.I read your entire post and still have zero clue what argument you're trying to make. I can only assume you disagree with me though I still have no clue why.>Like 30% of China's GDP is in public works, you'd expect the things they build to not collapse.Turns out it doesn't matter how much you spend if some corrupt official cuts a ton of corners bud. Also, buying 5 bridges costs more than buying 1 bridge. More news at 11. You don't think they spend 5 bridges worth of money on 1 bridge do you anon?>The fact that there's bridges to nowhere would normally be a sign of corruption if and only if a country isn't classed as developing, it's why complaining about corruption in China is a moot point.You're a tard if you think this is a developing country issue and not a corruption issue just saying. China has loads of massive infrastructure projects under its belt - they don't have an issue constructing shit. Not to mention, bridges aren't exactly the hardest thing to build - people have been doing it for millennia and it's not exactly "groundbreaking" civil engineering to build bridges.
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