Proving my point :)

It is interesting that I can point to the exact same piece of text you are interpreting as proving your point, while I can flip that same logic to make the exact same claim that my point is in fact being proven.

In my example I said we should not build roads in the middle of nowhere for no reason, and then you tell me, "No actually in your example there is a family who depends on that road." Like, no, there isn't. It's my example. There is no family there. What?

How did the family get there?
How did Hive gain control of a physical territory that it refuses to upkeep?
You've invented a hypothetical situation that will never exist in reality.

If someone builds a house in the middle of the desert or mountains...
Does the government automatically allocate a massive amount of resources to that area?
Again, no. That is not how it works.

It might be abundance but the mentality of the masses is scarcity.

How is this relevant to the conversation?
How is this different in a standard legacy republic?
These rhetorical questions are self-answering.
It has never mattered what the mob thinks.
You already agree with this sentiment because your entire core argument depends on centralized authoritarian control of the mob. You can't have it both ways.

Again, it's difficult to grasp what argument is even being made here.
It's not like we build roads for fun.
All the roads and infrastructure have value.
That's the only reason why we build them.

Here is how I'm interpreting your argument:

We need government to build roads.
Without government building roads, roads would not get built.
This is because roads have no value, so you need government to build them.
But the problem is that roads have value, so we need government to build them.
Hive? No, Hive is not a government. Hive would not build the roads.

The voice of the people matters.
Which is exactly why we must threaten them to pay for things.

Thus, you've already contradicted yourself twice and made one false assumption.

• Hive is a government.
• All roads matter.
• We can't empower people by threatening them.

What am I missing here?