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#1075 Dwarkesh Patel On Why The Future Will Be Wild

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Are There Any More Trains or Bridges?

After the stimulus in two thousand nine they had the galyf, like 30 billion dollars to build train tracks in in the us. And zero new miles were built. So literally, if you just do the equation, 30 billion divided by zero miles, it costs infinity dollars to build a mile for railroad in america. Lik, that is insane. You probably should be one of the wealthiest people in the world. If you think of elon and jeff bazos, then those are the two a that battle back and forth on the wealthiest person in the world,. Like there's a reason why they're the wealthiest.

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