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[–] Wahaha 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Interesting viewpoint. All I can think about Americans is how they build upon the Apocalypse of an entire continent. It's kinda easy to build new awesome stuff if you didn't have to tear everything down that came before it, because the Apocalypse kindly did that for you. Same thing on a smaller scale happened to Japan after the war.

The hard part is destroying everything that came before, so you can build new stuff. And I don't mean ideas, I mean cities. Just imagine the kind of cities we could build if we could start from scratch instead of just improving parts everywhere. There could be an entire automated underground distribution service based on huge tubes instead of needing to deliver packages through normal traffic. We could have houses that actually produce electricity instead of just consuming electricity. Just think about how old all that stuff really is.

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[–] Pawn ago 

We actually do that on smaller scales once houses are torn down.

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[–] Wahaha ago 

Too small a scale to upgrade the entire rail network to a technology that isn't from a hundred years ago. Also, instead of systematically tearing old houses down there actually is real effort to do the opposite, like CHM.

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[–] SpottyMatt ago 

Thanks, man.