We could have that too if our government had unchecked eminent domain power. Is that what we want? Seems to be one or the other.
It's only possible because they built it through the slums, which are essentially in medieval conditions. The train terminates in the region where the people had enough political/actual capital to object to it going through their neighborhood.
But it is very, very fast.
Japan, Korea, EU countries et al seem to make modern train lines and other infrastructure just fine without that.
Or how about modernizing the NYC subway for example? No "domain power" needed for that, just political will...
And it doesn't really matter how involved you are in local politics. The federal government can already take your land with emminent domain.
Hitler built the autobahn, a road system that is still enviable to this day—doesn't mean we want the system of governance that guided this project into being.
This isn't a necessary dichotomy either, you can invest in infrastructure without being authoritarian. But I think we celebrate China forgetting how some of these projects are greased through the system and carried out.
A president that isn’t a man child too.
edit: I guess that is redundant under unchecked eminent domain power.
If your hours + declared tips were less than minimum wage then they had to pay you minimum wage. That only happened at one large chain I worked at but not at the local, one-off places. Tips were large enough on weekends that it didn't matter much, or at least not enough to risk your job complaining.
The locally run bars I worked at didn't care about tip ratios, but the corporate chains expected you to average 18% tips and would penalize you if you were pulling less than 13% for several weeks -- cuz it either meant you were absolutely terrible at your job, or else you were lying.