Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Why Trains Suck in America" video.

  1. Claude Russia isn't a true dictatorship, it's regime is too lose and it's state too chaotic for that, it's so called hybrid regime, of which Russia and Venezuela are the prime examples.
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  2. Even if people vote where to invest their tax money, there still is a problem - the don't hire experts and don't trust them (common, just look how many Americans believe in global climate change being a hoax, in the Big Pharma or "organic" food being healthier). So when it comes to investment, they choose to build a new stadium, because entertainment, yeah! ... and then a bridge in their city collapses (true story from early 2000s, after which examinations of public infrastructure were run, only to find out 75% of bridges in USA being in rough shape). Who's fault is it? The big bad government! So, should we invest in maintenance of the public roads more? No, it's boring, lets build a stadium for sports games!
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  3. Claude Well, the "problem" with democracy is - if there are lot of idiots around, system might become dysfunctional. And I believe, it's not about trust to a bureaucrat. After all, he or she is our employee, after all, the power belongs to "we, the people". Of course, it's not that simple in practice. So IMO it's all down to employing those who knows better than we do - the experts in the field. Of course, experts have their own dissenting opinions and internal squabbles too, especially in fields that are not strict and precise as mathematics - economics. social sciences etc.
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  4. It's not just passenger trains that suck in US. I've seen a video made by a truck driver, he drives 18-wheelers both in Europe and in US and Canada. He is of an opinion, that American trucks are made much cheaper - the don't have secondary frame and no double beams of the main frame, thus a driver can feel it bending a bit, not so good sound insulation, suspension ins't that good either, they lack all that buttons and whistles that makes driver's life easier, especially gearbox and breaks, so in American style truck a man gets tired much quicker, add to that roads, that are smoother in Europe, at least it's Western part.
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