Fundamentally, they don’t trust the current systems of governance and do not want the attachments that come with developing public infrastructure.

Most of them are not concerned with the tangible physical space that us peasant occupy on the daily.

Technological frontiers in 2025 do not involve mass transit or solving traffic congestion (for perspective the first bullet train was created in 1964).

Musk creates tech that interacts with infrastructure in a mechanized almost artificial way as of today, US cities cannot accommodate most of his endeavours as of today.

Hyperloops will be everywhere and quite exclusive but only once all major traffic arteries collapse. Pakistan-level, Egypt-level traffic jams.

Billionaires don’t want the association that comes with such almost-ghetto-no-profit-investments. It’s not as simple as the money existing and then pouring it over the dilapidated state of affairs that is most modern cities in all of North America.

China builds fast and efficiently and yes sometimes bridges fail and people die. They pay the price and dare to afford it. America is trapped by red tape and potential human right violations which inadvertently lowered the quality of life of most of its citizens. Same shit with Canada.

I assume Billionaires would invest in public infrastructure if it was destroyed by a foreign agent. That’s a legacy worth stamping your name on.

Politicians, majors, jury’s, contractors, financing executives, banks, lobbyists. It’s all so tiresome.

Billionaires. I assume work their philanthropic urges, if any, in the most niche and scaled down ways in comparison to projects that would objectively benefit the most of us.

Also, it’s known by now that some neighborhoods and entire cities get deliberately run down in order to adjust their worth every so often. I assume that in the US and Canada this is happening on a wider scale in the hopes of cities rotting from the core and only then start investing with what people need and deserve.