if the benefit of infrastructure accrues indirectly to the ruling class through the productivity of the working classes, then it (infrastructure) will be mainta

if the benefit of infrastructure accrues indirectly to the ruling class through the productivity of the working classes, then it (infrastructure) will be maintained. After that benefit has gone away (say after manufacturing, technology, and information jobs have moved overseas) the infrastructure can be allowed to decay I'm trying to apply this reasoning to a different place (Los Angeles), but it doesn't seem to fit. Trucks, owned by the ruling class (i.e. shareholders of trucking companies) depend directly on those roads to make money. But the infrastructure is decaying anyway.