• dwemthy@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    People who build trains: intentional, making long term plans, interested in the impact of their actions
    People who build data centers and surveillance equipment: rash, focused on this quarter’s profit, insulated from the impact of their actions

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      Trains in the US take so long to build because of bureaucratic red tape intentionally designed to make it as slow and expensive as possible