yes, that is what i meant by brain-drain.  Not physically leaving, but rather how we spend money training engineers in schools only to have them go to the highest bidders (rationally) to work for Goldman Sachs or what not.

We can't even make a high speed rail above ground in the US, how we gonna do that under the Atlantic hahah

I don't know about the UK, but I don't think the problem with the US is brain drain.  I think maybe all our engineering talent went into building useless social media products, or into extractive rather than surplus-producing companies.


SimpleStacker

Construction_and_Engineering

$20 Trillion Transatlantic Tunnel Connecting London and New York

Scoresby

Lolz, two nations drownig in debt with having lost all engineering capability to brain drain decades ago. Just pay people to dig some holes there are easier ways to fleece the public.