Oddbean new post about login | logout Who will build the roads? Honestly why do we care? What if no one build any roads and then suddenly we were left with only trails in the woods? Isn't that a much more adventurous and poetic life that would make the world much more interesting? I thought socialists and statists of all kinds hated cars and trucks. So they should be for an anarchist society with no roads too.
Who will build the trails?
But I need my temu deliveries or my life is invalid somehow.
most people i know only use roads to go to school or work anyway, they barely explore their own state/country.
That you’re right!
The same people who build them now. It's not like everyone will forget their profession if the government doesn't tell them what their job is. Painters will paint, construction workers will construct, bus drivers will drive busses and everyone gets paid by those who use their service.
“Who will build roads” is most frequently asked question to me when i spoke about AnCap. Love answers to this everytime ⭐️
Anarcho-primitivism is a commie ideology. The better bet is effective accelerationism, “where we’re going we don’t need roads”.
I wouldn't use the word "worry", but I do think about the possible horrible extremes humanity may come to considering our bloody, murderous history and present. Will it be Anarcho Primitivism and the rise of warlords and feudal kingdoms or will it be an AI enhanced future where we give up our humanity to the bots in the interest of an easier life? Troubling times ahead my friend. If not for us, then our progeny.
We’d probably have flying cars if we didn’t have roads 😅
Hello fiatjaf, I`m that one user that lives in the middle of the Pacific ocean. We have plenty of jungles here, but for little old me to get to you, I need to sail the great Pacific. Its quite adventurous, but a little bit lonely. Meet me half way?
Hawaii?
I left this naive train at No Antibiotics, Regulated Food Quality, Municipal Water, and its inherent Short Life Expectancy. Adios!
Didn't you know life expectancy is falling in the US? Maybe you're not American, but I can tell you from experience living in several countries, we have more government involved in our lives than anywhere I've lived yet. Antibiotics? In Asia, you can get antibiotics when you need them ; here, you can't. I live in a very nice town in a part of the US with the strongest economy, and my water tastes like sewage. I'd like to collect rainwater, and that's actually legal in my state, but the HOA won't allow it. Do you know anything about nutrition? I'm a health nut of the most obnoxious sort, and proud of it. I can't believe the kinds of foods that I find in grocery stores - how the actual F is it legal to sell food with 1800% sodium per serving? I saw that the other day. Other foods have canola oil as first or second listed ingredient - that industrial lubricant, not food, and it's killing people. The FDA goes around shutting down small farms, but lets that get into grocery stores? TBH, it looks like the government is actively trying to make life worse.
You make good points. It’s just that when I consider what a libertarian paradise would look like, I think of Haiti. That’s what we get. Warlords.
Haiti is a terrible example of libertarianism. Haiti has had more foreign backed coups (by the US) and IMF loans than any other place I can think of. That's as far opposite of libertarian as you can get - they're completely dominated by state violence and predatory loans.
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lol I've yet to see a politician filling a pothole, nevermind build a road
Back to stage coach robberies eh?
the government doesn't build roads anymore. now it destroys them. educate yourself: https://dissidentsound.discoursehosting.net/c/urbanism/urbanism-explained/88
"Isn't that a much more adventurous and poetic life" Here's the secret that they won't tell you, it's actually a more HUMAN life... which of course would also be more adventurous and poetic because humans are poetic and adventurous... The goal of their roads is the same as the goal of their cities, their schools etc: its to domesticate, and easily herd the most profitable livestock on the planet: 'humans'.
Dirt bikes ARE "greener" (opposite day!) - and more fun. Wait, is this proof that socialists just hate fun?
Easier to fix a dirt road than asphalt.
TRUCKS ARE GOOD.
Who’s going on about roads? I often see reference to the roads question without anyone going on about roads. There’s quite a lot of roads already. Now how about a Fender Rhodes, who will build them?! Fender doesn’t seem that interested. Not even fully communist countries are making them.
My dad built his own road 🤷♀️
Mine too. And he's not an ancap, which I find very funny.
It’s gonna be fun watching the obese red haired libtards lose their shit waiting for their über eats along the trail 😂
If the government weren't making so many damn roads, the market would have given me a Jetsonmobile by now. I WANT MY JETSONMOBILE!
Honestly why do I care? There are shared public common concerns, of which transportation is but one. (Clean water is another.) If the majority conclude that radically slower and lower energy livelihoods are the correct path to sustainable and ultimately better ways to live, I'm down. But Bitcoin has very little in common with that. Rather, it is predicated on very high speed, globally connected "roads".
This is a straw maning an argument that is fundamentally flawed as it reveals an inability to truly understand how markets work.
I don’t mind dirt.
We don' *need* no stinkin' roads!🤣 nostr:nevent1qqsrpaef5u49vc78tma76x3y8dgcl7m95d652yvjy5gdvt2wszlkqmspz4mhxue69uhkyetkduhxummnw3erztnrdaksygxpsv0mufjn7askgssa2ldkem3chr803nn8wx7xtsf0s4paujeehupsgqqqqqqs3wwpfc
