The new york subway system was build by the free market, and so were most railroads in America. Telephone lines and internet cables have all been built out by private companies. Entire neighborhoods of roads and pipes are built by private developers.https://twitter.com/KayinNasaki/status/933082997099810823 …
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Replying to @drethelin
Railroads are an exceptionally bad example. The ones that broke even, did it by selling their land grants.
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Replying to @djinnius
Sure, and tons of gas stations have gone out of business. That doesn’t mean the free market hasn’t built an extensive and comprehensive infrastructure for petroleum product distribution
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Replying to @drethelin
Yeah it was called Standard Oil ;) Railroads in the US had nothing to do with the free market. Zip.
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Replying to @djinnius @drethelin
Land grants stolen from natives, federal reward money, and it still wasn't profitable.
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I agree with you that the pull-quote was silly. I've read "Mother Earth Motherboard". The US railroads don't support your point. UK rail does.
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