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runarberg • yesterday at 6:47 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

An awful lot Elon’s products seem uniquely capable in extreme niche cases primarily caused by America‘s horrendous track record of maintaining, upgrading, and filling in traditional infrastructure.


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wang_li • yesterday at 7:11 PM

Two observations with complaining about America's infrastructure:

1. America is huge. Comparing it to places in Europe is like comparing it to New Hampshire.

2. American has imported tons of people who are incapable of sustaining a high standard of living on their own. It only takes a few percent shift in GDP/person to change how much infrastructure you can build and maintain unless you are truly willing to let all the folks with less than a high school education and no special job skills live in favelas.

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