Except it does, they just dont have the ability to zoom far enough out. HSR vastly increases your potential labor pool, which applies downward pressure on wages which allows you to save on expenses.
That only works if the entity doing the saving on wages is the same entity that builds/maintains the railroad. Even then, in order to scale the wage savings up to the cost of building that railroad, you would need that entity to have millions of workers. Which means that the railroad should be built and owned publicly.
Except it does, they just dont have the ability to zoom far enough out. HSR vastly increases your potential labor pool, which applies downward pressure on wages which allows you to save on expenses.
That only works if the entity doing the saving on wages is the same entity that builds/maintains the railroad. Even then, in order to scale the wage savings up to the cost of building that railroad, you would need that entity to have millions of workers. Which means that the railroad should be built and owned publicly.