if you were born when the California High Speed Rail authority was founded, you could have done these things in these year spans

5 years: goo goo ga ga
13 years: gone through k12 education
4 years: college degree

flown to japan
4: learn japanese
4: do another 4 year degree

and the HSR authority would still be jacking off in Bumfuck, California while you'd be riding the shinkansen every weekend to fuck elderly women in Ōsaka-shi to get your mind off your stressful 80 hour salarythem workweek in Tōkyō