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The metaphor was broken. Stage 2: make it easy for everyone to have a railroad by leasing them yours. Lease yours multiple times over, each time for less than

The metaphor was broken. Stage 2: make it easy for everyone to have a railroad by leasing them yours. Lease yours multiple times over, each time for less than it would cost the customer to build a new one. Stage 3: everyone has a railroad which they rent from you. Collect rent on all railroad activity forever.

stcredzero 9y ago
How about: Everyone owns a car?
- spartanatreyu 9y ago
  rent out the cars
  - kuschku 9y ago
    And this is where Uber/Waymo are going. Welcome, you just reinvented the problem of rent-seeking.
    - shaki-dora 9y ago
      “Rent-seeking” has nothing to do with “renting someone a car”, common term notwithstanding.
      - kuschku 9y ago
        Rent seeking has everything to do with trying to extract a continuous profit out of a resource.
        ci5er 9y ago
        Are you sure?
- ENGNR 9y ago
  It always comes back to the car analogy
- ehnto 9y ago
  Where cars are a small Virtual Server, and the VPS provider runs on AWS. Oh no, it was a railroad all along!