I have some experience with this particularly. My family owns some land in a rural area outside the city. When we bought it back in the 90s. There were no roads. We needed roads for many reasons among them to get materials in. So that we could build a house in the land we had acquired. We talked with the neighbors, around 200 plots of land that would benefit from building roads in the area. So we got together with them and pooled resources to build the roads. They were rudimentary nothing fancy. Poor lighting I mean they weren't the highways but they were enough for what we needed.

It worked great for a few years. Then the government saw the roads were built in the area and came and imposed speed bumps and speed limits on the roads we built. Then bumped the taxes on the properties around the roads because they now had roads.

Communities build what they need in the size and speed that they need it and can afford.

We live in Colombia so your milage may vary

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Wow thank you for sharing that perspective!

This is a classic example of how people who want and will benefit from the infrastructure will contribute to build it.

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I have an interesting story along this vein as well.

When I was a teenager, there was this concrete bike trail I basically lived on day in and day out. If I wasn't at school you could find me there with my friends fucking around, maybe smoking weed or whatever.

There was this dirt trail right off the main, government made trail, we carved it into the woods by simply walking that path, it crossed a creek to go to a shopping center because the trail wasn't really efficiently designed to actually go places fast. The trail didn't meet our needs so we improved it, no permission, no central planning, nothing. Authorities used to give us a hard time, trying to bust kids getting stoned or whatever down there.

My son also grew up there, he's about that age I was in those days, so he took me to go walk it. Nice thing, walking with your son in a place where you both have similar memories around the same age. That dirt trail is concrete now. It even has a name and a big sign over it. There's a bridge over the creek.

They couldn't stop us, because they don't actually govern anything. I bet the planners were really pissed at the kids making their own trails there instead of taking the prescribed routes. All they could do was pretend they made it for us, they made it better, slap their legitimacy on it, and of course take some tax money to do it. But they didn't make it, we did, against their wishes, and since government actually doesn't control anything, they instead give it their blessing, pretend they did everyone a favor, make everyone forget that they didn't build it, pretend they've given us some great gift. And they have to, because if they don't people might figure out that we don't need them.

I think your last paragraph just described how Bitcoin will be adopted as well 🤗 thank you for sharing! It would be cool if you had a photo of yourself there that he could recreate.