Rail produces externalised goods, the same way that not having rail, i.e. suburbia + truck traffic gridlock, is producing externalised costs and opportunity costs. Short term thinking, colloquially called “being stupid” and incentivised by capital-centric political economy, doesn’t even recognise the concept of externalised good: “but I’m paying for people I don’t like” - first-day-in-society people complaining like 12 year olds that they have to do the dishes sometimes.
Rail produces externalised goods, the same way that not having rail, i.e. suburbia + truck traffic gridlock, is producing externalised costs and opportunity costs. Short term thinking, colloquially called “being stupid” and incentivised by capital-centric political economy, doesn’t even recognise the concept of externalised good: “but I’m paying for people I don’t like” - first-day-in-society people complaining like 12 year olds that they have to do the dishes sometimes.