Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agoToo bad we can't have good public transportationlemmy.worldimagemessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up11.15Karrow-down123
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minus-squaredan69@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·1 month agoAmerica: if ain’t broke don’t fix it Every other country: yah it’s time, what are our new requirements?
minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoI mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.
minus-squareAppleTea@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoactually, they do get to complain https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/gallery/chinas-extraordinary-nail-houses-show-5727566
minus-squarebountygiver [any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoAnd then turn a blind eye to all the broken stuff because “we have been living with it so it’s not broken”
minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThen there’s “if it ain’t broke… how can we break it to extract a few extra bucks from it?”
America: if ain’t broke don’t fix it Every other country: yah it’s time, what are our new requirements?
I mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.
actually, they do get to complain
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/gallery/chinas-extraordinary-nail-houses-show-5727566
And then turn a blind eye to all the broken stuff because “we have been living with it so it’s not broken”
Then there’s “if it ain’t broke… how can we break it to extract a few extra bucks from it?”