• Chewy
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    1 year ago

    Free as in free to use. Just like roads.

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Roads should be tolled. Every single one.

      Governments waste obscene amounts of money building car infrastructure, which loses money with no return.

      • Chewy
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        1 year ago

        Building toll infrastructure also wastes money. It might make sense for highways, but even that is big undertaking.

        I do think most people (at least in Germany) take roads as a given, unlike other forms of transportation infrastructure (trains etc).

      • molave@reddthat.com
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        1 year ago

        Governments maintain such infrastructure likely to maintain their military logistics backbone. That it’s free for citizens to use is incidental.