>there are at small examples of private roads everywhere in the world, but sure no highway anywhere oh wow, well, I guess my hobby model rail counts as a free market rail system. > that doesn't constitute an argument against the free market though because nowhere in the world there has been a free market in roads and land with decent contracts and institutions so you are saying that real capitalism has never been tried? I’ve heard this exact kind of rhetoric from the other utopian thinkers, communists. It’s never been achieved before so it hasn’t been disproven! The ultimate tautology of utopians! You can’t refute them, because nobody’s ever done what they say could trivially be accomplished! well, it seems to me that you should use the free market to convince investors to create your libertarian paradise where there will be no government assurances of transit thoroughfares. I am sure you can make it happen using the infinite power of the free market! > also why is that important anyway? someone else started with roads. You brought up rail. you all keep bringing this stuff up. I’m just saying why I think the thinking here is fallacious.