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Capitalism good, railroads bad (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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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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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

TBF Europe has been mostly capitalistic for a while now. Germany's national identiy is like half "we build cars" and yet it's the center of that gigantic railway cluster (which kind of sucks currently, because of the aforementioned "we build cars" identity and the capitalism).

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Deutsche Bahn is great if you are in no particular rush ;)

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

The dutch railroads run on capitalism.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] SimpleMachine@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I’m gonna go rewatch who framed Roger rabbit.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sure would be great if the US map was all passenger rail.

[–] 5ha99y@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago

Europe has a thing called solidarism, but capitalism starts to win here too...

[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] durably465@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Marseille to Paris 3h20 for 820km (510 miles)