• anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Except by subsidizing the tech bros to do it, they think they’re offloading the risk when it fails and the opposition can’t blame them.

    Pretty much the same reason CEOs are paid so much to be the fall guys, and also why CEOs and tech bros both think they are so much better than the rest of us.

    • Venator@lemmy.nz
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      6 hours ago

      Don’t forget the politicians probably also get campaign donations and/or free publicity from being involved…

      Also they get to use up unused railways, it’s like future austerity by preventing those lines being reopened or repurposed as bicycle paths in the future…