I gotta be honest, HSR is one of the things I have no idea how it could possibly be built by anarchists. You’re never going to get every single person along the route to agree that it’s a good idea.
Yeah, cant even do that under capitalism. One the biggest things holding up high speed rail in Texas are all the landowners who are vehemently against it.
Yeah exactly. There are multiple reasons why HSR is so difficult in the US vs China or even Europe but higher protections for land owners is one of them.
Of course, an anarchist society would not have land owners per se, but it would presumably be even more deferential to the desires of people who are using that land. CA HSR still forces people off their land, it just gives them legal avenues to object and slow down the process. But what if they could just say no indefinitely?
If you want long, linear, contiguous infrastructure like rail or highways, it virtually requires overriding some level of objection from people who live or work along that route. So then does a society that fully protects individual autonomy simply not build such infrastructure? This would pose a challenge for modern logistics, although I suppose water and air freight would still be quite viable.
The sad part is here in Texas, imminent domain could take the land and pay a “fair price” to the landowner. But we only do that to poor minorities in order to build football stadiums for private companies.
I gotta be honest, HSR is one of the things I have no idea how it could possibly be built by anarchists. You’re never going to get every single person along the route to agree that it’s a good idea.
Yeah, cant even do that under capitalism. One the biggest things holding up high speed rail in Texas are all the landowners who are vehemently against it.
Usually the state can declare eminent domain and force a sale. Varies by jurisdiction though.
Yeah exactly. There are multiple reasons why HSR is so difficult in the US vs China or even Europe but higher protections for land owners is one of them.
Of course, an anarchist society would not have land owners per se, but it would presumably be even more deferential to the desires of people who are using that land. CA HSR still forces people off their land, it just gives them legal avenues to object and slow down the process. But what if they could just say no indefinitely?
If you want long, linear, contiguous infrastructure like rail or highways, it virtually requires overriding some level of objection from people who live or work along that route. So then does a society that fully protects individual autonomy simply not build such infrastructure? This would pose a challenge for modern logistics, although I suppose water and air freight would still be quite viable.
The sad part is here in Texas, imminent domain could take the land and pay a “fair price” to the landowner. But we only do that to poor minorities in order to build football stadiums for private companies.