Rail barons in the 1880s (cartoon from the 1880s of a rail baron (Harriman Railroads) eating multiple rail tracks, vs US railroad map in 2026, vs Europe map of railroads in 2026 showing the difference. ‘Capitalism is good for the people’
Capitalism good, railroads bad
19 Comments
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 27 pts · 26d
TBF Europe has been mostly capitalistic for a while now. Germany's national identiy is like half "we build cars" and yet it's the center of that gigantic railway cluster (which kind of sucks currently, because of the aforementioned "we build cars" identity and the capitalism).
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 25d
Deutsche Bahn is great if you are in no particular rush ;)
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · -15 pts · 26d
Tbf, many of the densest countries on that map have been socialist for a while.
inari@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 26d
Sure, if we define "socialism" as "capitalism with a minimal welfare state"
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 25d
Unfortunately way too many people actually define it like that. It makes discourse really annoying sometimes.
EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social · 7 pts · 26d
huh? name socialist country in Europe please
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 25d
I assume they're talking about the eastern block, i.e. "they have been but aren't anymore". 1945-1990 is a longer time than 1990-2026.
EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 24d
yeah sure, but dropping such a statement and then bailing speaks volumes ...
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 24d
True, that's pretty bad manners.
sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 26d
In which of these countries do the workers own the means of production?
Visstix@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 26d
The dutch railroads run on capitalism.
SimpleMachine@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 26d
Not really defending our horrid rail system here, but there is a massive amount of rail line missing from the US map. I work in logistics, I do a lot of rail related work.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 26d
I see this brought up often under posts like this one, and it's usually lines dedicated for freight rail, whereas all of the lines in Europe are either passenger or passenger + freight.
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 25d
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 26d
Musk and his kind are the top picture. The US will not benefit from his company’s tech. Socialist systems might, eventually.
Musk is a robber baron on a massive scale.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
I’m gonna go rewatch who framed Roger rabbit.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 26d
Sure would be great if the US map was all passenger rail.
5ha99y@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 16d
Europe has a thing called solidarism, but capitalism starts to win here too...
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 23d
And European trains go fast right? Tell me they go fast. I just looked up the train ride from philly to nashville, 33 fucking hours and I have to switch trains once. Its not even that far! Guess Im fucking flying.
durably465@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 23d
Marseille to Paris 3h20 for 820km (510 miles)