There’s a huge sprawling rainwaterrailway network across America… It’s just only used by freight cause the bastards that own it decided passengers are unprofitable
Assuming rail autocorrected to rainwater, agreed. There are interesting parallels between rail in the 1800s and the life cycle of the internet - successful network technology explodes in utility and popularity, then is cannibalized and constricted
It’s the story of the USA in general, y’all seem to fall for it every time, gov makes something mildly socialist, corporate muscle their way in, cannibalise and constrict it, and then everyone’s told “see, there’s no way it could have worked! USA is just too big/different/free/wilddeleteas appropriate”
Have you looked at railway maps?
There’s a huge sprawling
rainwaterrailway network across America… It’s just only used by freight cause the bastards that own it decided passengers are unprofitableAssuming rail autocorrected to rainwater, agreed. There are interesting parallels between rail in the 1800s and the life cycle of the internet - successful network technology explodes in utility and popularity, then is cannibalized and constricted
It’s the story of the USA in general, y’all seem to fall for it every time, gov makes something mildly socialist, corporate muscle their way in, cannibalise and constrict it, and then everyone’s told “see, there’s no way it could have worked! USA is just too big/different/free/wild
delete as appropriate”