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Which business pays for it? I don't want mine to pay for it, because someone else will. And I can keep using the road because who's gonna stop me? > One thing
by croon 9y ago
Which business pays for it? I don't want mine to pay for it, because someone else will. And I can keep using the road because who's gonna stop me?
> One thing that always struck me, was in a capitialistic society we are actually all incentivised to fix potholes ourselves
Is it not the case that in any society, we are all incentivised to fix it ourselves. Who is the government in your society? Us or them? Why not both?
- patrickmay 9y agoThem. Unfortunately, a single person has very little ability to impact his or her government. That, combined with the observed fact that the goal of any government organization eventually becomes the perpetuation of that organization, is why the answer to your question cannot be "both".
- croon 9y agoEveryone is a single person, and yet almost everything we've ever accomplished has been collaborations. > That, combined with the observed fact that the goal of any government organization eventually becomes the perpetuation of that organization That may or may not be true, but regardless, it's then good that most developed countries have established a form of government where organizations within that government don't have complete autonomy and always answer to some form of elected representative of the people.