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There must be some incredibly expensive technology in those roads, considering how much governments are taking from us to build them. I mean I can get a superc

• piva00 3y ago
  > I mean I can get a supercomputer in my pocket that allows me to access the sum of our civilization knowledge anywhere I am and to communicate with anyone of earth for a few hundred bucks and a monthly fee less than a meal, but roads?! Nooo, those are the real value at the center of our society. Well... Yeah? Roads are really fucking useful, like many more times than all the knowledge you can have in your pocket. Without roads you don't have that thing in your pocket, because it's not even getting to you, at least not in a convenient timeframe (and not for cheap). Roads, sewers, water pipes, electricity cables, without those there would be absolutely no way for your supercomputer to be made, even less for that cheap. Don't dunk on roads, there's a reason why the Romans are still praised for them.
  • nickpp 3y ago
    Of course infrastructure is useful, even if not that amazing. But why are governments charging us for it even more than the Romans did when countless other, much much more amazing things (and just as useful) came down in price dramatically during the last 2000 years? I have a hunch: in my town all road repairs are made by companies owned by friends and relatives of the politicians in power…