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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by throw10920 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @11:20PM (#41375616)
The US government, both at the federal and state level, is extremely inefficient at building infrastructure, in terms of value per dollar spent.

Proposing that we should continue to throw more money at infrastructure, before diagnosing and fixing the problems that are causing that inefficiency (at which point, sure, double the infra budget - as long as we're getting good value, the absolute amount can go up as far as I'm concerned), is straight-up malicious.

The only people who make the argument to keep increasing the infrastructure budget before fixing the problems are those generically interested in throwing more money and power at the government, not those actually concerned about infrastructure (who will seek to fix the problem first).

Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by amrocha on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:14AM (#41376842)
What private company in the US is building infrastructure more efficiently than the government?
Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by somewhat_drunk on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:52AM (#41380878)
"The US government shouldn't do anything unless it can do it according to my arbitrary standards of efficiency."

That's you.

In reality, everyone accepts that large projects undertaken by large governments will never be the pinnacle of efficiency. It is simply an acceptable price to pay to have publicly-owned infrastructure, as opposed to a privately-owned nightmarish mishmash of toll sewers and power lines. We know this, and so you you. Putting up fantastic goalposts and demanding they be scored upon before we advance downfield is ridiculous to the point of being maliciously inept. You are surreptitiously arguing that the government should never undertake large projects in the guise of improving efficiency.

Shame on you. At least be honest.

Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by dang on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:38PM (#41394537)
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