See Amtrak -- subsidized at state & federal level.
And overbudget, and more expensive than flying, and shit.
many (if not most) of our airports are privately owned (they have landing fees and such),
Not unless you count airstrips & private airfields where nothing bigger than a Piper Cub can land. Sorry.
I am counting them, and there are tens of thousands of those, compared to the few big public airports. I would think a Cessna 208 Caravan is a tad bigger than a Piper Cub, and almost all of them can handle at least those. There is also at least one private commercial airport that can handle bigger jets, and one private industrial that can handle cargo jets. If there's a reason airports must be publicly owned, I'd like to hear them.
as are our phone masts/electric poles, and internet cables.
Partially true, though tightly regulated.
I.e. true,
despite government.
And although air traffic control is administered by federal government, a lot of it is leased out to private companies, and for small private traffic is slowly being replaced by GPS and avoidance collision systems in the planes themselves.
In other words, gov'ment.
Again, I'd like to hear why it has to be. Air traffic does just fine in private airport areas with private towers.
(btw, are you a pilot?)
That you lack imagination to picture anything beyond what you have already experienced with is pretty well established. Or, in your own words, mew mew mew.
Mew mew mew? What kind of pussy language is that? If you picture your mom piloting a 747 to do her shopping, you don't need to explain where you get the rest of your brilliant ides.
I'm sorry, I forgot you're a pony fan. Neigh neigh then? All you can do is try to picture your mom piloting a 747 to do her shopping, and failing at it. I'm picturing her groceries being delivered by drones. Or her riding on a machine that can easily go over dirt roads and even off-road, such as a hovercraft or a legged machine. Or even the grocery store being a giant bus/truck that travels around town and makes a stop by your mom's place on a certain day of the week. Or there being a series of small tracks going all around town like electrical wires, with little carts flying quickly back and force over them, relaying packages and delivering them to your mom's and everyone else's post box. Imagine what would happen if, instead of government taking hundreds of billions from people to maintain roads, hundreds of billions was used by companies to throw at drone research, lighter-than-air vehicles, or at further developing something like Big Dog into something that can give a fast, smooth ride. You wouldn't need roads.
Then imagine how much nicer and greener everything would be if it wasn't all covered in black pavement.
TL;DR: "Mah examples are flops and fails & Libercat tales, but just look-e at my imaginingz:
drones delivering groceries! Besides, U R a Brony, neyah!"
All the dronez are currently busy doing spyingz & delivering sub-kiloton payloads of freedomz & democracies to eager moms in "developing countries."
Friendship is magic!
