> Imagine if every highway in the Bay Area were a publicly-traded company. Accident happens on I-280 due to a pothole. Shareholders panic and short sell I-280 s

> Imagine if every highway in the Bay Area were a publicly-traded company. Accident happens on I-280 due to a pothole. Shareholders panic and short sell I-280 stock. Accident never gets cleaned up. Pothole never gets fixed. Because they don't have funding to fix it. I occasionally hear this argument about "the roads" mentioned, but I'm genuinely curious if there are notable real life examples of this scenario.