Consider this and weep
China ran roughshod over every farmer and peasant in the way of these trains. America can’t do that because of property laws.
I know you’re trolling but I’ll still bite. China’s farms don’t exist in the same way the US’s do. If you look at their villages it’s a cluster of houses and the farmland is on the outside of the village. So laying rail and putting in trains doesn’t really harm the “peasants and farmers” you’re talking about. Relatively few people live in fuck off no where in their own house like they do in the US.
…the USA’d mow over Native American territory to build tracks, wouldn’t they…
A lot of the highway system was built straight through black neighborhoods. If we built trains under the current government we would find a way to make it super racist.
