(If you haven’t heard this before: it’s “We have an Internet connection 2 blocks from your house... but connecting the rest of the way is a $X0k proposition.”
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More broadly, anytime you have a network or system where communication/transaction costs round to free inside the system, getting stuff into and out of it is generally very valuable and (often) very hard.
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Concrete example: Western Union can move money between any agent and any agent for really cheap, but moving money between any person A and any person B requires agents (cash handling businesses usually), and those cost ~50% of the total cost of moving money.
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You also see this in e.g. package delivery. After something is on UPS or Sagawa’s rails teleporting it around the globe rounds to free but that *{%}^^ing residential delivery takes all the hard work.
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