> Your own link describes roads as generally nonexcludable: Well, I did not notice that because one has to click to reveal that self-contradictory statement. I

> Your own link describes roads as generally nonexcludable: Well, I did not notice that because one has to click to reveal that self-contradictory statement. In any case, that is a point against Khan Academy. "Public good" is not the same as "these days mostly financed by politicians shoveling money to labor unions and a few firms". Everywhere you look there are excludable roads. Everywhere you see traffic congestion, you see rivalry. Roads are not public goods, even if you feel like governments ought to own them.