To be pedantic, roads are comparatively easy. High speed rail, not easy at all. Like literally impossible without government intervention even in the best cases. But it’s hard to argue that *in certain cases* (such as Japanese Shinkansen for example) society was worse off for it. Government funded public works can be the engines of society.
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Ask the engineers and the planners of high speed rail systems and nuclear power plants how difficult their jobs would be without government intervention and let me know what they say.
Government has and always will be a wrench in the engine of society.
Fair, but then ask the finance people on those projects whether they would ever be financially viable without subsidy, eminent domain, etc and lmk what you learn too.
If you think there will be LESS entrepreneurship/risk-taking and LESS investment in massive profitable long-term society-improving projects in a hard-money-enabled world where we don’t have a big group of child raping retards stealing and debasing everyone’s savings and thereby jacking up their time preference then idk what to tell you.