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Re:The hunt for dollars to build the $64B bullet train by aplomb on Sunday December 25, 2016 @11:52PM (#13256980)
Our culture is incapable of building anything meaningful without extortion pricing.
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Re:The hunt for dollars to build the $64B bullet train by throwaway4891a on Sunday December 25, 2016 @11:58PM (#13257002)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

http://bensommer.com/blog/big-dig-big-corruption/

There's a mix of ineptitude, poor/non-planning and some shady deals. With larger projects, more waste is essentially inevitable because of the number of moving parts and limited communication paths.

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