I’m not being dismissive as if to deny facts. But you seem to be adopting your friend’s opinion.
Roadways are physically necessary for an itinerant society — something that certainly precedes recorded history.
The inventions & investments corps produce and the consumer demands are not public property. Your taxes are not paying the cost of advances in technology. And doubtful you ever intended to invest in such technologies.
Socialism is a very, very bad thing. Avoid it.
Some people have to get their a$$ burned by the fire before they wake up to the fact that they need an ointment to treat the burns.