I’m pretty sure any iPhone and it’s parts are worth way more than any android. If you had a fully modular android phone that is easy to take apart it still wouldn’t be worth much because there’s no market for it since maybe a dozen people have that phone.
Nah, $70 billion is about right, and that’s a conservative estimate. If it turns out anything like california high speed rail then it could definitely go into $100 billion territory.
Common law countries like the u.s., Canada and u.k. are really inefficient at building hsr due to property rights issues. California is still struggling to build its hsr even though it’s scope has been reduced, its budget keeps ballooning. Similarly, the hs2 project in England to connect London to Manchester has also been cut back to just Birmingham, and it’s also over budget ringing in £ 50 billion for just that section.
If this were china then yeah you could probably get a Vancouver to Quebec line for $70 billion, but the Canadian central government isnt that strong and would have to deal with a lot more regulations.
They could also build a high speed rail from Toronto to Quebec, something the people could actually use.
Yeah, but in both cases a majority of the population lives in the moderately dense line between the two major cities in the south east.