• quantumcrop@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    Any system in the modern day that relies on one person seeing a light or else 68 people die feels like it has some corners cut somewhere.

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      3 days ago

      A system than can not be overridden comes with it’s own problems. Also, updating such a system for an entire rail system every x years would cost a ginormous amount of money which means you’ll have to cut somewhere else.

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        2 days ago

        which means you’ll have to cut somewhere else.

        Or increase revenue by taxing wealthy and corporations more.