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Fixed, thanks.

Your point about total mileage of road/rail etc is interesting though isn't that contrary to the point the OP is making - building more stuff makes you richer?

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Building infrastructure that gets productively used makes you richer, if the infrastructure costs less than the productive use of it. Spending more money for the same amount of infrastructure productivity is bad. There's no magic here where, ceteris paribus, spending more money on infrastructure is itself good.

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