I bet this guy built a highway and a dozen of bridges, just for fun.
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I see your logic, and I counter with : we have too many roads and bridges and the world would be better if a little less connected.
You're on a social network, advocating for less connections. Do I have to unfollow now? 🥺
Jokes aside, the point I wanted to make was just that I ain't that simple. Yes, I absolutely agree that there's waste in government spending (and bridges without road connection are a good example in Germany actually 🤣), and yes nostr:nprofile1qqspyhpe6yflj5dl40e3nmd73sxcxjj0ul06pkxr6s3385teqreu33cprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6tc9kxhcx they are ultimately built by private companies but someone needs to pay those, too.
And I doubt that there would be any coherent "road standard" if managed on a community or completely private level.
Roads were just one example, education, health care etc are others.
I am happy to be proven wrong by factual data though if it exists (I am not sure if there are/were any fully market based societies we can pull data from)
Fair points.
I vaguely recall a lesson in an economics class, where we learned about how corporations worked in early America - I can't remember if it was before or after the revolution, but in that period. Basically, people would form short term corporations for the purpose of what we'd now call public works - building roads and bridges and canals. For a period after construction, traffic paid a toll, so all investors made a return, and then the toll ended and the corporation wound down.
So maybe that could work again. My point is just that there are more options than theft.