• rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 anni fa

    A massive high speed railway network across North America, coast to coast. Russia did it, China did it, most of Europe did it. Canada and the USA have no excuse.

    • count_dongulus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 anni fa

      Property acquisition costs and legal fees are immensely more expensive in the US. Have to obtain those thousands of miles of land for rail development from somebody.

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 anni fa

        There are ways. Maybe bring our number of aircraft carriers down to only 3x the rest of the world combined instead of 5x, just as an example.

      • troutsushi@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        2 anni fa

        Property acquisition in the US more expensive than in Europe? I think not, at least for the immense swaths of land that make up most of the US’ land mass.

        The legal fees I see, but that’s why most developed nations have legislature for disowning property owners of land necessary for infrastructure at a set compensation. Whether that’s fair or just is up for ideological debate, I’m sure.

  • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    2 anni fa

    Universal healthcare, public transit, communism. Or at lease food for everyone, housing for everyone and communication for everyone.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 anni fa

      Economic communism won’t be achievable until we fully automate the economy and institute some kind of technocracy or lottery style political system.

      A truly “stateless” society is a joke, but separating the economy from the state is only possible if we are all out of jobs.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 anni fa

    We’ve recently figured out beaming power to another location. We might be able to start a Dyson swarm, which is just a collection of solar panel satellites that beam their energy back to earth.

    I’d like to also see the start of space resource extraction/refinement. The more of that Dyson swarm we can build without having to lift it off earth, the better.