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We could build infrastructure on this scale in the US but our govt prefers to use its money to bomb the poorest countries on earth and fund a genocide

It’s a state-level NIMBY and red tape problem. Ezra Klein, Matty Iglesias and Noah Smith all write about this.

Requires political will and use of eminent domain. Eisenhower built the highway system—while fighting Korean War. 

Authoritarianism is a useful form of government if you want to build train tracks and not have local input.

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You ever read Radical Markets? Has an elegant market solution for this. Requires completely restructuring property rights & taxes though.

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IIRC the authors outline a way to gradually roll it out starting with state-owned things like broadband spectrum but yea unfortunately status quo bias tends to kill every good idea.

yes because that's gonna be really simple across 40+ states plus on the federal level