Talk:High-speed rail
This is a great article! Did you write it specially for Wikipedia, Qbmessiah? --Larry Sanger
- Unlike other modes, whose emergence have at least in part been the result of a forceful entrepreneur, rail’s George Stephenson and Peter Cooper, the automobile’s Henry Ford, or the airplanes Orville and Wilbur Wright come immediately to mind, high speed ground transportation has been a product of planning from the central government in Japan, France, and the state governments in the United States.
Who cares whether an "entrepreneur" is involved? Just mention it's the result of central planning and be done with it. Americans are so weird.
I disagree with the above remark. This seems to be a very important difference in the way this technology was developed. I'm sure you'll agree that one cannot discount the importance of entrepreneurs in the development of many technologies; given that, it's notable that (if it's true) entrepreneurs weren't involved in the development of this technology. This has social/political implications, of a sort that ought to be interesting to you, particularly if you don't (ever) care whether entrepreneurs are involved in a project.
--A weird American :-)
You're begging the question. You're assuming that it's notable (ie, important enough to be noticed) that "entrepreneurs" (whatever that Americanism means) weren't involved in the development of high speed trains. And from this you conclude exactly what you're assuming!
Actually, the word "entrepreneur" should be taken out even if for the sole reason that it's an Americanism and a propaganda word for neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism is a POV which should be moded away. If you wish to say that "Neo-liberals think it important that blah blah blah" then go right ahead. At that point, I can leave it to someone else to take it out as completely irrelevant. -- Not an American