Beyond stimulus: Gen Z's dream of high-speed rail and Green New Deal infrastructure
Alfred Twu Cara only has about 700 followers on Twitter. The 20-year-old frequently garners a handful of “Likes” on her content, which consists mostly of takes on pop culture and singing videos. But when she tweeted a popular image of a potential US high-speed rail map in January, saying “I want her so fucking much,” her tweet quickly went viral, earning over 185,000 “Likes” and more than 50,000 retweets. Such is the popularity among Gen Z-ers of high-speed rail. “We look at other countries that have good examples of it, and we wonder why our country can’t do that,” Cara sa...
Source: vox.com