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rayiner on Nov 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

> Why is geography the privileged metric here?

Because there are 50 different sovereign states cooperating within a federation. Also, because we shouldn’t let the NYC-DC corridor become Trantor.

CPLX on Nov 18, 2019 [–]

Yeah and those states created a federal government.

We’re talking about interstate transportation here. If you envision even the absolutely shortest list of things for a federal government to be involved in that’s going to be on it.

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