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This seems like a completely unrelated implementation detail.

• mywittyname 4y ago
  Seriously. The government could have just leased rights to the land for 100 years to the railroad companies.
  • justrealist 4y ago
    We don't need to go full PRC, we can just make land grants that make geometric sense.
    • mywittyname 4y ago
      If the concern is getting multiple companies to cooperate and preventing them from accumulating too much land/power, leases are a good solution. Land leases are not bad things just because the PRC happens to use them. The USG leases a crapload of land to companies for various profitable enterprises. It's a tool in the toolbox.
      • justrealist 4y ago
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