>>211972437This is why colonization would be good. Economically it’s not feasible to pay 6 gorillian trillion dollars for it, but what America can do is
>Invade a country and take the resources needed to build the trains by force , using the army and corps of engineers for logistics, guarding, and transport >Create a system of consensual worker-slaves , probably foreigners , and offer them automatic citizenship once the train project is completed. Can also consider using convicts with the stipulation being automic erasure of their criminal record >all food and shelter is provided but no payment to the work force And there you go. Just solved all our problems that “muh free markets” are too pussy to do. You need strength and vision to get such a project done. Not just “muh shareholders, muh blackrock, muh Larry fincklesteinberg”