• Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      People love to bring up our vast expanses of land in these infrastructure comparisons, but that wasn’t an insurmountable problem when we wanted transcontinental railroad, telegraph, telephone, etc…

      • rchive@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        wasn’t an insurmountable problem when we wanted transcontinental railroad, telegraph, telephone

        It’s worth noting that those were all massive handouts to private corporations. Some of the beneficiaries of those handouts are still on top of their industries today.