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You are not wrong in theory, but this reads like an econ 100 short answer. It ignores all the political and social aspects of a very complex system.
by andrew_lettuce 1mo ago
You are not wrong in theory, but this reads like an econ 100 short answer. It ignores all the political and social aspects of a very complex system.
- impossiblefork 1mo agoYes, I agree, and of course I sort of try to qualify it a bit. I think cheap, easy transportation has its own value. Creating a sort of fluidity, competition and so on, and it's not like one can't imagine a situation where somebody is the guy who controls all the rail deliveries to a town, or where he has bought all the rail transport demand in the past, so now he gets to be first. Roads, meanwhile, are open to everybody. At the same time, I really do think that it could be beneficial to shrink trucks down, automate them, or create something which has so many bogies that the road wear is not greater than on a car, so I sort of argued for what I saw as theoretically fair without actually being sure that the outcome would be what I hoped for.