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  • We should ask roads and parking lots to at least break even. That they’re provided on government or business dime is related to the sprawl problem that’s making transit hard to set up.

    Sewers arguably make drug dealer profit margins, the way certain municipalities charge for a hookup. Which has resulted in very little new construction even during the housing crisis.

    Schools, yeah. It’s pretty obvious it is economically worth it, but only a long way down the road, like with basic research. And then there’s the whole “making better people” aspect of it, however much you buy that.




  • You’re getting a lot of “none” answers, but that’s overly pessimistic, given that you used relative terms for almost everything, and free healthcare and education are standard first-world features.

    The usual statistics wondercountries would be my answer. Canada, the Nordics and select other places in Western Europe like the Netherlands and Switzerland. New Zealand is having problems these days, but maybe them too, I’m not sure. They all lean towards these stances relative to other countries.

    Cheap food is probably hardest thing. It just comes with a certain cost to produce or ship in.