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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They may have been talking about economic inefficiency, if you don’t have a busy enough route to justify the initial investment.

And in the US at least, there is a LOT of land, and huge amounts of it are sparsely populated. But that still adds up to a lot of people.