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Important-Owl1661 t1_iufe3fi wrote

Reply to comment by fudgy_brownies in Over 350 fall into river after a suspension bridge collapses in India by Kaioshinsama7

I'm not defending the colonial era but I have to say they built good shit back in the day... most of those British Railways are still being patched together, too

These days it looks like India is suffering from the same privatizing/profitizing that the US and others are suffering from.

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Arndt3002 t1_iufhfzv wrote

Are you implying that the entire British empire wasn't a system of privatization and profiting? That's a wild take.

The problem is corruption and, in this case, politics coming before safety.

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Kronis1 t1_iufs98h wrote

The problem is unchecked capitalism.

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gritty_badger t1_iugr2b9 wrote

There are bridges that don't even exist in the real world in the communist states in India.

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Eric1491625 t1_iugtnfk wrote

>I'm not defending the colonial era but I have to say they built good shit back in the day... most of those British Railways are still being patched together, too

Imagine thinking the stuff in the colonial era was safe and good. 19th century construction was so extremely dangerous that even people in Britain were dying by the thousands to crappy safety designs.

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hopumi t1_iugv40v wrote

Meanwhile the Pyramids...

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Ameisen t1_iuir009 wrote

Are giant piles of rock. I mean, it's hard for those to fail.

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