Half Life: America
To Whom It May Concern,
America’s infrastructure, once the envy of the world, now teeters on the edge of obsolescence.
Roads crack like parched earth, bridges corrode as if gnawed by time itself, and water systems leach lead, a slow poison seeping into generations. The arteries of our economy—railways, ports, and power grids gasp under the weight of deferred maintenance and bureaucratic inertia.
We do not merely risk inconvenience, but catastrophe.
Contrast this with a developing nation, where infrastructure is often nascent but alive with ambition. In cities across Africa and Southeast Asia, new roads and solar grids emerge, stitched together with foreign investment and local ingenuity. There, the problem is often scarcity, but the momentum is still moving forward. Here, stagnation is our disease. We’ve truly rested on our laurels.
America once built the Hoover Dam, the Interstate Highway System, the moon lander. All testaments to a nation that dared to engineer the future. To reimagine what is possible.
Today, we patch rather than construct, privatize rather than invest. The failure is not in our ability but in our will. We must choose: reinvest in our foundations or crumble under the weight of our neglect.
Stop complaining. Start competing.
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