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Building a lot of high-speed rail is not a sign that a country is good at building, it is a sign that it is bad at allocating capital.

Drawn from what Casey Handmer said

Subjectinfrastructure
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infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

What Casey Handmer actually said

  1. Casey Handmer Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    I would never like hold up a flag saying I'm really good at building highspeed trains. Like that is just a sign that you're really bad at capital allocation.

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    ↗China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmeryoutube.com

    15 Aug 2025 · video · 1h 08m · spoken · machine transcript

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