re: #394 jaunte
This is almost short enough for a complementary response meme:
These are lessons that China has learned from. Their investment in education is not as intensive as the USA’s, because their population is so much greater*, but the government is spending billions on high speed rail and highways to knit the country together (and make it easier to mobilize troops). Electrification is nearly completely done.
* More than 9 million high school seniors took the college entrance exam last month.