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		pphysch on Aug 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K e... Has a road or water line ever paid for itself?

colechristensen on Aug 10, 2022 [–]

Well the US economy has boomed for the last 250 years or so and depends pretty heavily on roads and thirsty humans. Those investments seem to have given more than they took, by a very wide margin.

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