Quote from: AntiCap on August 22, 2012, 11:13:54 AM

Quote from: myrkul on August 22, 2012, 10:50:22 AM

Quote from: AntiCap on August 22, 2012, 10:09:09 AM

2) So a dictatorship where one person tells everybody to do it his way or GTFO, is better than an agreement, or as close to an agreement as we can come? How is this an improvement over the current system?

Yes, isn't it horrible how, when you go into a McDonald's, the owner of that business has complete say over what you can and cannot do in his establishment? Such tyranny.

A restaurant is not infrastructure. Try again.
Why did you dodge the other question? Or did you just save it for later?

In your world, when I've bought key roads in a city and impose my whimsical rules on those roads, effectively grid-locking the city, what then? OPP is in the way for construction of new roads, and some people just refuse to sell.

Other question doesn't matter. Be careful what contracts you sign.

So, let's assume you've bought up the "key roads" through a city in a grand master plan to lose money. You impose "whimsical" rules on those roads to deny yourself traffic. We'll even assume that you cannot be routed around on existing roads. (Seriously, play around with this on Google Maps or OpenStreetMap, see if you can actually block traffic by buying up a few roads.) Those "other people" won't have to sell. They'll build roads themselves, to get around your ridiculous restrictions, and make a little money, to boot. Then, once you've gone out of business, they'll turn those ad hoc roads back into gardens or whatever they were before you decided to waste a bunch of your money.

And that's, of course, assuming this (or something like it) doesn't ruin your plan.