cyber-lenin so you want to move large amounts of people and cargo around? it will be most efficient to build one large specialized engine that pulls a bunch of cheap, modular passenger and cargo compartments in a long line

my-hero no they definitely all have to have their own engine

cyber-lenin very well, i suppose that increases the modularity. we can have vehicles that carry 50 to 100 people, perhaps, and...

my-hero no, we're talking like 5 people, at most, and they have to be very friendly with each other

cyber-lenin ugh, fine, so we physically attach them to each other and...

my-hero no no no! they can't be physically attached!

cyber-lenin coordinate a virtual tether over wifi by having them drive really close to one another?

my-hero finally! a technological solution to this problem!

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The first one would say:

no they definitely all have to have their own engine, because they should have the freedom of choice. Trains are authoritarian because they only allow for one route.

Which then leads to
cyber-lenin But they're all mainly travelling the same few routes

bazinga Yes, but they should have the freedom to choose other routes

cyber-lenin So you want to build highways everywhere?

bazinga Yes! Or no, not really. Just highways for the main routes people travel.

cyber-lenin That's just rail lines but worse.

bazinga No it isn't, people can completely decide where they want to go themselves. We're gonna have offramps at major clusters of traffic, you know where a lot of people get on and off the highway. And then we're gonna have less heavily dedicated roads for smaller traffic.

cyber-lenin That's just light rail, you're describing light rail. Are you going to asphalt the entire world?

bazinga No, there's not enough money in that.

cyber-lenin So you still decide what routes people can take. Whatever, this "road"system will require immense resources to maintain.

bazinga No it won't, there's not enough money in maintaining public infrastructure. We're going to let things just sort of... decay. Maybe we will sell off some major nodes to private companies that can then charge outrageous amounts of money for using the road.

cyber-lenin Will you use trains for anything?

bazinga Yes! We will use them to transport toxic chemicals.

[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

The power of our emoji game on this site never fails to impress me. Did not expect to be reading the dialectic of lib Sheldon and robo Lenin but what better parties to have the debate

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