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And it’s possible to technically birth hegdehogs, not that you should
?????
He proposed of a possibility? Not a good one in my opinion, like planting an adult hedgehog into a womans womb and artificially inducing birth
Implying that infrastructure building to grow economies is somehow alien and inefficient is exactly why the west is declining. Roosevelt era and Postwar America made a habit of it, then make a habit of privatizing everything and allowing private companies to siphon public money into their coffers and let infrastructure decay while expecting unlimited economic growth. The idea that this monster we've created is somehow efficient or sane vs building capacity for economic growth is incredibly dumb.
I dare not fucking wonder how building a train line into fucking nonsense gonna induce economic growth in your mind but I actually don’t want to know