So they’re a terrible idea because of bad sanitation and child labor? In that case, the entire history of economic ideas is bad up until 1920-ish. They unquestionably achieved their goal of providing better transportation. Am I to infer that you believe that government run highways are wrong because there is trash strewn on the sides of the road?
Maybe but thats not the point. They might have worked, maybe even made a profit, but I still say that they were inefficient which is why we don’t use them today (all thats left is a few large pieces of stone jutting out of rivers that passers by can’t explain.)
So they’re a terrible idea because of bad sanitation and child labor? In that case, the entire history of economic ideas is bad up until 1920-ish. They unquestionably achieved their goal of providing better transportation. Am I to infer that you believe that government run highways are wrong because there is trash strewn on the sides of the road?
Maybe but thats not the point. They might have worked, maybe even made a profit, but I still say that they were inefficient which is why we don’t use them today (all thats left is a few large pieces of stone jutting out of rivers that passers by can’t explain.)
Were telegraphs a bad idea? Horse-drawn plows? Why does the fact a technology was superseded mean that it’s a terrible idea?