Not original quote:

If the government ran the Sahara, within five years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman.

Because it'd be jungle again? :0

Yet we're out of sand[1] without any central planning involved.

Government can be stupid and wasteful, but they cannot even dream of being more wasteful than a competitive market.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...

And then there are the thieves stealing whole beaches https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135620650/stolen-beach-sand-...

Look at the places with the best railway infrastructure. Almost all of them are government run.

Or part of the gov't pension plan.

With existing railroad infrastructure, even if its managed badly on behave of the public the outcome is gone better.

The reality is in most of the world, including all the places with the best railway infrastructure the government is managing or tightly controlling the rail road.

When I see cities of millions in the US not even have a railroad you really have to ask yourself if the perceived inefficiency of government can make things better anyway.

Yes, the RR companies are literally stopping trains and having to drive out crews to swap out because the trains are stopped for so long. and the crews have long shifts already.