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beervirus · 2021-11-06 07:50:17

It’s not really about infrastructure like roads and stuff. It’s about “infrastructure.”

M_Grey | karma 7070 | avg karma 3.06 · | 2017-02-21 17:48:35

You know that not all infrastructure is bridges and roads, right?

teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2016-03-20 17:06:09

In the U.S., apparently “infrastructure” means “roads”. Hardly a mention of trains, no mentions of optical fibers, electric grids, etc.

numpad0 | karma 6056 | avg karma 1.35 · | 2021-01-08 16:49:48+00:00

Infrastructure is infrastructure

donatj | karma 17336 | avg karma 4.57 · | 2019-04-04 14:10:45+00:00

I mean infrastructure is what everyone points to when one asks “what am I even paying taxes for?” Often even the short hand of “roads”.

nosuchthing | karma 1859 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2015-10-05 18:39:01+00:00

Infrastructure 'aint just gonna build itself.

cpach | karma 7344 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2022-07-09 13:35:02

Not really for infrastructure though? Still neat.

dantheman | karma 7782 | avg karma 3.3 · | 2021-06-08 16:47:21

It has nothing do with physical infrastructure and everything to do with social infrastructure - the people and organizations that are located there.

And the weather.

project2501a | karma 33 | avg karma 0.67 · | 2021-07-02 08:37:57+00:00

isn't infrastructure an investment, not a cost, tho?

philwelch | karma 36168 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2011-08-02 02:08:09+00:00

Most of that is infrastructure, not industry.

emodendroket | karma 21781 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2017-12-28 01:15:56+00:00

It isn't but I thought we were talking about infrastructure (there are clearly political factors at work there too of course).

Aperocky | karma 5363 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2019-08-12 20:31:44+00:00

TBH that's the American definition of infrastructure anyways.

zufallsheld | karma 578 | avg karma 1.89 · | 2021-11-01 03:44:12

Infrastructure is certainly not unambiguous here.

BurningFrog | karma 23526 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2018-09-02 20:24:51

Yeah, I'm saying maintaining infrastructure is not a political priority, because it doesn't win elections.

Not that the people working in infrastructure maintenance waste the money.

canow | karma 16 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2015-10-13 17:43:24+00:00

I was thinking mainly of infrastructure...

seppin | karma 46 | avg karma 0.04 · | 2019-03-23 17:10:31+00:00

Also, infrastructure does not lead to economic growth. Quite the other way around, really.

mason240 | karma 2247 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2017-02-16 14:20:11+00:00

The idea that we shouldn't build infrastructure because it will get used is one of the more silly talking points out there right now.

trainsarebetter | karma 43 | avg karma 0.75 · | 2022-03-31 07:24:04

And road infrastructure isn’t? It takes up more land and needs more maintenance than rail

fooker | karma 3408 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2023-10-24 02:47:28

Not everything has to make money, especially public infrastructure.

ahstilde | karma 826 | avg karma 2.61 · | 2016-01-09 00:00:53+00:00

What sort of infrastructure?