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Re:The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971 by notahacker on Friday January 26, 2024 @07:17PM (#39150790)
Granted the opportunity to run additional electric wires everywhere by whom? Something's got to compel landowners to give unfettered access to their property to run wires and pipes to other properties and that something isn't market forces. (It isn't market forces that means the monopoly provider of wired telephony in my area has to permit multiple ISPs to use their wire either...)

Or abolish land as property as an evil state construct, I guess, but I haven't heard of any right-libertarians that want to do that (or seen anywhere with limited property rights that has an abundance of utilities to choose from...)

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Re:The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971 by phpisthebest on Saturday January 27, 2024 @08:43AM (#39155470)
>> I guess, but I haven't heard of any right-libertarians that want to do that

Well this is conversation is about libertarians, not "right-libertarians", I am more of Geo-Libertarian

>>Something's got to compel landowners to give unfettered access to their property to run wires and pipes to other properties

Yes it is called a voluntary agreement built into the title of the property (aka convents) normally when a subdivision of land is created, where by utility paths laid out by the developer. Subsequent purchasers of the land must agree to these convents, including utility easements, when they buy the property.

government is not required for that.

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Re:The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971 by notahacker on Monday January 29, 2024 @12:19PM (#39179008)
If you're building your own power and sewerage stations, you're going to have to build across a lot more than just residential subdivisions with handy built in covenants...

Oh, and covenants are entirely unenforceable without government anyway.

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