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Re:Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon's Worth of Mic... by twelvechairs on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:14PM (#42958566)
Roads and road standards are a tragedy of the commons. People keep buying bigger cars and demanding more, wider lanes and parking spaces because they don't take any of the burden individually - it's the taxpayers as a whole that foot the bill.

Paradoxically most of the 'small government' types are often the biggest road users.

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Re:Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon's Worth of Mic... by sooheon on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:38PM (#42958760)
The solution to tragedies of the commons is to internalize externalities. Tax should scale with carbon use, congestion contribution, and microplastic emission.
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Re:Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon's Worth of Mic... by robertlagrant on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:47AM (#42962862)
> Paradoxically most of the 'small government' types are often the biggest road users.

I think it's "limited government". I'm pretty sure they would prefer roads get more spending.

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