On 28-Jun-06, at 9:32 AM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
What happens when resources are stretched far beyond their limits?
When
the critical resource is not the number of trains, but land area? When
you have to consider that new land isn't exactly creatable (you can
dig
only so many tunnels, build only so many bridges), how do you
propose to
use those resources?
Hey, I don't have time to come up with all the answers. But the
market is
invariably creative enough to do so. Besides, the answer to this one is
very simple: sky trains. They can be built atop existing highways.
Besides, I bet they're not running nearly as many trains as they could,
on the track they already have.
Also, as you can see in the Indian aviation industry, the state hates
competition
and does all it can to suppress or completely outlaw it.
James Hill built the first transcontinental railroad in the US, with
no government help and no "funds and labour looted from" anyone.
I said working :). I don't think that AMTRAK is profitable (in any
sense
of the term).
Duh. Hill built his railroad over a century ago. It functioned just
great, and
was instrumental in the growth of industry and agriculture all over
the US.
Amtrak, OTOH, is a state run company. You're just proving my point :-)
As I said before, if there's a real threat to anyone's health or
safety, polluters can
be dealt with in the same manner as any other violators of individual
rights.
And this is not a tyranny of the majority? How?
How is punishing violators of individual rights "tyranny"? Please
check your
dictionary.
The critical resource you are missing in my question is land, not
oil. I
don't care how much money you throw at the problem, land is not
going to
magically appear.
I already mentioned skytrains. Besides, there's plenty of land on the
planet.
Unfortunately, huge chunks of it (especially in a country like India)
is owned
by the state and is unusable by fiat.
Alternative routes? Where are the flying cars?
Will be here soon enough. If not for anti-capitalist forces that slow
down market
innovation and progress, flying cars would likely already be commonplace
(incidentally also saving large numbers of lives that are currently
lost to traffic
accidents because roads are pretty much 1D. Flight is 3D, so much
less chance
that your flying car will be in the same spot as another flying car
at the same time).
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