I could take a picture of some roads around me if you like, and you can compare them to the goat path that existed between any two ancient cities that you like.

I could take a picture of some roads around me if you like, and you can compare them to the goat path that existed between any two ancient cities that you like. I think I remember reading that when the Matrix sequel came out, they spent something like $10 million building a 1-mile length of highway. I assume that this was neither much cheaper nor much more expensive than building the real would have been. Which fallacy is it when you make a false equivalence between some gigantic construction product in the modern world, and someone having cleared some brush in the pre-modern world, all because we happen to use the same word to label both things?