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Arguments about the wasteful duplication of infrastructure, like arguments about most everything else (including the powers of the free market), can be used or abused. Thus, that you can identify some cases in which some socialists have abused the misapplied the concept of a wasteful duplication of infrastructure does not mean that all instances in which that concept is applied are incorrect. You ask me to "get real", but how realistic would it be to run a second road between Goulburn and Yass, or between Tamworth and Armidale, in competition with the existing roads between those centres? You might call such as scheme an "evolutionary improvement", but most economists, and indeed most people, would simply call it wasteful.
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