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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by stcredzero on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:58AM (#18717056)
Anyone from the US who has flown overseas to modern, industrialized countries in the past decades will note the aging look of the US.

Given overall industrial and cultural trends, why wouldn't everyone just keep building new stuff every 15 years? This would certainly fit the Chinese regime's policy of increasing GDP. (We'll have to crack the problem of carbon neutral concrete sometime.)

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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by maxxxxx on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:23PM (#18717325)
"Anyone from the US who has flown overseas to modern, industrialized countries in the past decades will note the aging look of the US"

True. Whenever I get visitors from Germany they always comment on how run down a lot of parts of the US look.

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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by stcredzero on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:28PM (#18717388)
I was in Stuttgart in 2001 or so. If that's what a 1st world country looks like, I'm starting to worry about the US.
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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by beamatronic on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:35PM (#18717473)
Most of the Bay Area has that look. Houses built in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by kolleykibber on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:39PM (#18717520)
Landing in any American Airport never fails to shock me. Equally the clash between passport control and the commercialism of the rest of the airport. I was first in SFO in 1995, I'm pretty sure there hasn't been an update to border control since then, and I'm always given a good few hours to study the place.
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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by TheodolphusRose on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:07PM (#18717150)
I haven’t noticed this in my travels. I have seen that the subway and train systems in some countries are leaps and bounds ahead of anything I’ve seen in the US, but what have you noticed beyond that?
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