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I… dams? To stop the entirety of the country from being flooded and underwater… are… useless? Cuz fuck it we don’t need land.
Water bridges to allow commerce in ports is… also useless? Fuck it we don’t need trade/commerce.
Trains are useless? Fuck if we don’t need efficient transportation or trade!
Wild
No see he said innovative benefit. So obviously the problem is that they arent plastered in advertisements for boner pills. You gotta innovate!
Trains aren't innovative, they are boring and old. Why not teleporters?
Silly tankie, that's inventive. Innovative means improving on existing technology, like not making any changes to the actual tech but finding a way to squeeze more money from it
Imagine a government not run by lawyers...
it's a state run by capitalist vs a state run by communists, no lawyer no engineer nonsense
People are so used to the US government being the party scene from Society (1989) that they forget how governance works
pretty much yeah. the CPC is a very broad cross section of Chinese society, including lots of both engineers and lawyers.
How do you look at infrastructure and say, "that's bad, actually."?
Bad infrastructure is infrastructure for trains, ie. for poor people.
Good infrastructure is when highway.
Because the capitalists aren't allowed to exploit it for profit
yeah, in a government run by lawyers, all the innovation is finding ways to craft legislation and plaintiffs so all that ever happens is paid attorneys talking passed each other in front of former attorneys, who are waiting for the moment to insert their ideology into a decision.
I'd rather have a giant public works project to go look at, not to mention, all the people who got paid to build it aren't asshole lawyers.
I mean, there is a pretty big differences in how a lawyer run society tends to solve social issues and how an engineer run society tries to solve issues. In my country, most of our parliament is lawyers, and they try to solve every issue with either more detailed legislation (a favourite of theirs, just after complaining that legislation has gone too far and needs to be cut back) or with more/heavier enforcement. From what I can read about other countries dominated by lawyers and libs, they tend to see things the same way. In China, the people that run the country tend to have a lot of engineering education / experience, so they usually try to avoid using cops / legislation to solve social issues, and instead try to nudge people through infrastructure instead. From what i can see in videos, China seems to have taken a smarter approach to traffic and congestion than most western countries.
Ultimately you need both. You need to have simple, clear policies and open and fair enforcement of those policies (Say what you are going to do and do what you said you were going to do), and then also invest in the physical infrastructure to accommodate those policies.
This has been a thing in well-run manufacturing plants for years. The key is to change the ownership structure and eliminate the ideas of infinite growth and rising profits.
having worked with nothing but engineers my entire life, keep those psychopaths away from all positions of authority
I'd take a million Rudy Giulianis and Alan Dershowitzs over ONE Xi any day.
I agree. Can you imagine how much evil the US could accomplish if it weren't for the one million clones of Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz who are somehow all fighting each other?
we need a government run by engineers like 
not like that! 
Me, looking at a country that went from being one of the most impoverished places on earth to being a technological and industrial superpower within a human lifetime: "Man, those people can't govern for shit."
Lawyers can be good too!
I mean, where the hell are the highway widening projects? How do you expect to innovate transportation if you’re not adding that one more lane that will eliminate congestion?
China has you covered on that too
That's the G4 highway, which is a four lane highway before and after this toll booth, scroll north and south on the map and you'll see (the overlay on google maps is a little misaligned for me).
This image was captured right after "golden week", when the traffic was unusually bad heading out of the city. Presumably holiday traffic is the reason they built fifty lanes of toll booth.
Thank you for adding the clarification. This was intended to be a joke post that China is fully capable of adding absurd amounts of lanes if they want. I was aware but should have provided the fact check in my comment as I wrongly assumed people had already seen this before
For the record I did think it was a funny joke, but I wasn't aware of the context of the image myself until I reverse-image searched it, and I just wanted to share what I found with the other people in the thread.
what in god's name
the picture's a little misleading. The highway is a four lane highway, it's just the toll booth that goes out to fifty lanes (twenty five in each direction, only half visible in this image)
with 
characteristics
I mean, at least those examples (which, he does not explain why they are bad) actually do exist in real life, you know. As opposed to like the US where I goes ,you could post a stroad? That's very USian. Also, he does even post anything his prefered kind of goverment has build. It's just taken for granted.
(Also, his cathegories are shit, and what tf is "innovative benefit", how will that feed me?)
little innovative benefit
ie building tech that works now instead of waiting for VCs to fund gadgetbahns
“Where’s the consoom?! WhErE’s MuH iNnOvOoOoOoshunz!?!?!?”
I think people who’s job it is to innovate know more about it than you. Welcome to logic, westoid. Turns out to solve problems, you don’t reinvent the wheel for the sake of it.