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A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award-winning investigation into train derailments. Here's what he found. (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 144 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

The main failing here in the US though is that rail maintenance falls to rail companies that have little financial incentives to spend the money on safety. That may be changing, however if the federal government just hands over money with inadequate oversight it will just enrich the companies.

Sounds almost as if critical infrastructure should be owned by the public.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

But that stinks of communism, doesn't it... πŸ˜„

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But that stinks of communism, doesn’t it… πŸ˜„

Sprinkle a bit of communism on that capitalism.

[–] 0x0 1 points 3 weeks ago

Tim Roth?

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