Maretus
@maretus
You know what really highlights Americas decline for me? The lack of grand infrastructure projects over the last 50+ years. I don’t think we could build the Hoover dam today or the Golden Gate Bridge. It would take 30 years and go 900% over budget. When you look at empires that have fallen through history, many of them built their most grand structures early in their reign. The great pyramid, the colosseum, the temples of Angkor wat, were all built early in the reign of their respective empires.
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FrameTheGlobe
@frametheglobe
The new World Trade Center took roughly 20 years, and that only the first tower. In comparison, the Empire State Building was built in a little over a year, in 1931.
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Marwan ♋️
@marwan1337
Empires ready to fall go rigid first. Just like how a person ages and loses range of motion over time, this country in general is very inflexible and that makes us susceptible to falls. Among many other things of course, but the government doesn’t know how to adapt.
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Sophia Indrajaal
@sophia-indrajaal
For me, its that Americanness no longer includes rooting for the underdog or civic duty (see how people drive now for an example). But the infrastructure thing is real for sure. Compare it to what China has built in the last generation.
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EthStackFI
@erikasbulbasaur.eth
We can’t even build a damn train in California 😂
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VA BUDS 🔵
@allinadazewook
Ah fuck 🤯
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Tobi
@tobystic
I was in England 3 years ago and they were celebrating 150 years of the Underground rail system. 150! That’s infra
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Elrey
@elrey
Perhaps what they focus now is the human project and then maintaining the existing grand infrastructure projects
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Bluclaat.eth
@bluclaat
I don’t think that’s just the USA, I think it’s partly to do with the bidding model used to get the contracts. They take the lowest one and are somehow surprised when it goes over budget… but the contractor got the the contract so they don’t care they just overspend. In the UK we had the HS2 project, meant to be London to Manchester high speed railway. Although needed it was some what of a conservative vanity project. They bought, forcibly the land, destroyed tons of woods etc, went horrendously over budget and has now been scrapped except for a tiny part that goes no where!!
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