Rail barons in the 1880s (cartoon from the 1880s of a rail baron (Harriman Railroads) eating multiple rail tracks, vs US railroad map in 2026, vs Europe map of railroads in 2026 showing the difference. ‘Capitalism is good for the people’
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The dutch railroads run on capitalism.
Musk and his kind are the top picture. The US will not benefit from his company’s tech. Socialist systems might, eventually.
Musk is a robber baron on a massive scale.
Not really defending our horrid rail system here, but there is a massive amount of rail line missing from the US map. I work in logistics, I do a lot of rail related work.
I see this brought up often under posts like this one, and it’s usually lines dedicated for freight rail, whereas all of the lines in Europe are either passenger or passenger + freight.
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I’m gonna go rewatch who framed Roger rabbit.
Europe has a thing called solidarism, but capitalism starts to win here too…
And European trains go fast right? Tell me they go fast. I just looked up the train ride from philly to nashville, 33 fucking hours and I have to switch trains once. Its not even that far! Guess Im fucking flying.
Marseille to Paris 3h20 for 820km (510 miles)
