☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoBiden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two yearswww.washingtonpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlusa@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareDragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·8 months agoDoes anyone know why the US is especially incompetent when it comes to infrastructure? Is it just capitalism or is something else going on? It’s not like we have any shortage of people who can build them, since the job market is so competitive. Is it just the government is too weak-willed?
minus-squareRussianEngineer [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·8 months agothere’s absolutely some crazy levels of embezzlement happening all down the chain
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 months agoThis is an excellent read on the subject https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/
minus-squaremarxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 months agoThey don’t wanna do it and don’t care to fix that problem.
Does anyone know why the US is especially incompetent when it comes to infrastructure? Is it just capitalism or is something else going on?
It’s not like we have any shortage of people who can build them, since the job market is so competitive. Is it just the government is too weak-willed?
there’s absolutely some crazy levels of embezzlement happening all down the chain
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This is an excellent read on the subject https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/
They don’t wanna do it and don’t care to fix that problem.