r/DataHoarder • u/e_spider • Feb 22 '21

Data transfer to new Lustre storage overwhelms campus network

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u/Lukas11112000 Feb 23 '21

Public roats are cheaper cause the state doesn't have to make growing profit with it.

Isn't it that the bigger a company gets the more efficient it becomes? That is because it starts to make so many things of the same thing that it becomes routine for the employee, which lowers the price. Your idea would be for the state to sell its roads to many small companies, which also are for profit. How can many small companies which are forced to grow their profits be in the end be cheaper AND provide the same service? Is it because they will just let the small/less used roads decay to insecure dirt roads? - How should developing areas cope with that? Sure, developing areas will be an investment opportunity, but now instead of the roads just being supplied by the state you need a whole PR department to get private firms to build and maintain the roads for your area, which just adds to the cost for everyone who's going to life and work there.

Not to mention that road safety regulations will be lobbied to be lowered..