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Not sure what is left to explain. In the ways that a system of teleporters/portals is different from a system of train stations, the former are entirely superi
by lotyrin 8y ago
Not sure what is left to explain.
In the ways that a system of teleporters/portals is different from a system of train stations, the former are entirely superior to the latter; if the former can't solve a problem neither can the latter. The idea is: no transportation solution (even a perfect, immediate one) provides a supply of anything; it can only connect a market with a demand to a market with a supply.
You would need to argue that on the other side of a hypothetical transportation investment that there is a supply, or that it's easier to create a supply in those market(s).
- maym86 8y agoBut why would op choose to talk about teleporters when train suffices and is the actual thing we are talking about. No simplification is required and a conversation about public transportation is better if it's actually about public transportation that exists. Also people seem to have not seen the word 'too' in my original post.
- maym86 8y ago"the former are entirely superior to the latter" and that trains have more downside than teleportation is exactly why Stockton wouldn't become as expensive as SF and the analogy is bad in the first place.