> Among others, this creates an incentive to keep the resource scarce and to not invest into maintaining and expanding it. Price signals are exactly the sort o

> Among others, this creates an incentive to keep the resource scarce and to not invest into maintaining and expanding it. Price signals are exactly the sort of thing that can be used to optimize (and fund) the maintainance of infrastructure. Right now roads are placed and funded by fiat, which is why they’re often located nonsensically or in highly irregular states of repair.