Actually there are laws against GIVING food to people now as well.
The laws are not against giving food to poor people. The laws are against distributing food by unlicensed vendors, or against distributing food that is not packaged, etc. The effect is the same but the difference is that the people writing these laws are deluding themselves into thinking that they are not doing exactly what they are doing.
No government should be anywhere near the voluntary exchange that happens between any two non-government parties.
wow, you'd have to shred just about the entire constitution to achieve that goal, in fact you'd have to shred all of civilization's founding documents all the way back to about 1000 AD
If this law is regularly violated by reasonable people just going about their business, then it's a bad law. Full stop.
so we should get rid of lead paint laws because they are violated all the time by normal people going about their business?
have you ever seen the statistics on lead paint in apartments? do you know how many are breaking the law? by your logic we should just leave all that lead alone and let the children suffer
There are also precedents for airplanes sliding off the end of the runway and into the ocean at these airports. At Logan there is no room for error, the water's edge is right at the end of the runway.
Fix up the train service to Boston and Washington, get the Boston run down to less than 3 hours. Probably half of LaGuardia's customers could get there in the same time on the train if it actually ran as it should. That way the air traffic in and out of New York is reduced while maintaining the same passenger service levels. One less airport, much more efficient trains. Win win all around.
established utilities meet demand 24x7, while residential solar can't do that for most the country.
hydro power doesn't do that either, but it's not a reason to dump hydro power. The beauty of electicity is that you don't HAVE to choose a single generation method, you can pick and choose depending on what will work out best in the long or short run.
The likely answer is to never have residential solar at all for 70% or more the country, but rather have large collection grids in wasteland.
except that electricity does not travel well over thousands of miles, if it did we would have done that with the coal plants a long time ago, the simple fact is that we have to build power plants close to where the electricity is used
As with moth things in life, we're better if the government stays out of it.
EVERYTHING in our consumer society is paid for and financed with money whose value is maintained by the force of government.
EVERYTHING you "own" is that way because the government will intervene if someone tries to relieve you of your stuff
You would not make it to work in the morning without being robbed and left in the ditch if it were not for government police protecting you all the time
who have the skills to run the equipment themselves
this is generally not the issue. renting equipment means that you take possession, you are responsible for damage to it, you have to maintain it. you have to keep it out of the elements and away from vandals if you want your deposit back. you have to transport it you have to rent the trailer to transport it. you have to hire the guy to drive the truck to transport it. you have to find someone to fix it when it breaks.
when you pay for service you don't need any of that. small contractors already have full plates keeping up with the customer, why take on all that other stuff too? besides you can just bill the service straight to the customer with a markup so you still make money on the deal.
Have you noticed that the human species thrived and grew just fine for thousands of years, but suddenly since we discovered money, now the oceans are dying, the tell tress are all cut down, the big mammals are all dying and the gulf of mexico is dead? No, because you are too busy counting the bills in your pocket.
It's a basic human desire/nature to want to control the things you have earned,
"Earned" is not in the human nature, everything else in your post revolves around this fallacy.
"Capitalism, as an economic concept, appeals to human nature because the individual controls the "wealth" and distribution.
In capitalism the individual LOSES control over their wealth, they trade actual stuff with actual value, for monetary tokens whose value is controlled by the group. If the group decides that your tokens are worthless, they are worthless.
the collapse and utter disaster of communist countries proved this.
Yeah okay, cuba has a longer life expectancy than the USA, lower infant mortality rates. Who lost the argument and gave up on the embargo? WE DID.
Meanwhile in much of Baltimore, the average citizen doesn't live long enough to collect social security, and yet they pay into it for the future that they don't have.
"get a good job and work hard," " If everyone's even and shares everything, nobody tries and your country sucks."
People work like HELL in this country, much harder than just about any other country. And guess what? This country SUCKS! Our healthcare SUCKS! Our infant mortality rate SUCKS! Our teenage pregnancy rate SUCKS! Our roads SUCK! Our trains SUCK! Our Internet SUCKS! Our jobs SUCK! Our culture SUCKS! Is this what we get for working harder than any other country?
In the meantime, in the places that value lifestyle and family over business, they have BETTER BUSINESS SUCCESS.
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Actually there are laws against GIVING food to people now as well.
The laws are not against giving food to poor people. The laws are against distributing food by unlicensed vendors, or against distributing food that is not packaged, etc. The effect is the same but the difference is that the people writing these laws are deluding themselves into thinking that they are not doing exactly what they are doing.
It's only ridesharing if the driver is going in the same direction as the passenger!
yes greyhound is only ridesharing too, because the driver just happens to be going to the same place as all the passengers.
No government should be anywhere near the voluntary exchange that happens between any two non-government parties.
wow, you'd have to shred just about the entire constitution to achieve that goal, in fact you'd have to shred all of civilization's founding documents all the way back to about 1000 AD
If this law is regularly violated by reasonable people just going about their business, then it's a bad law. Full stop.
so we should get rid of lead paint laws because they are violated all the time by normal people going about their business?
have you ever seen the statistics on lead paint in apartments? do you know how many are breaking the law? by your logic we should just leave all that lead alone and let the children suffer
one landing does not a trend make
There are also precedents for airplanes sliding off the end of the runway and into the ocean at these airports. At Logan there is no room for error, the water's edge is right at the end of the runway.
Fix up the train service to Boston and Washington, get the Boston run down to less than 3 hours. Probably half of LaGuardia's customers could get there in the same time on the train if it actually ran as it should. That way the air traffic in and out of New York is reduced while maintaining the same passenger service levels. One less airport, much more efficient trains. Win win all around.
Lots of LaGuardia traffic is coming from cities like Boston and Washington that already connect to NYC via train
Beef up and speed up the train service, it's probably cheaper than trying to fix LaGuardia
do you really want mass transit vehicles carrying hundreds or thousands of human beings to be manned by people making minimum wage?
I prefer my bus and subway drivers to be well paid, satisfied with their jobs, and willing to stay on the job for many years.
So, perfectly suited to New York City itself?
exactly, bulldoze it and turn it into part of the city
established utilities meet demand 24x7, while residential solar can't do that for most the country.
hydro power doesn't do that either, but it's not a reason to dump hydro power. The beauty of electicity is that you don't HAVE to choose a single generation method, you can pick and choose depending on what will work out best in the long or short run.
The likely answer is to never have residential solar at all for 70% or more the country, but rather have large collection grids in wasteland.
except that electricity does not travel well over thousands of miles, if it did we would have done that with the coal plants a long time ago, the simple fact is that we have to build power plants close to where the electricity is used
As with moth things in life, we're better if the government stays out of it.
EVERYTHING in our consumer society is paid for and financed with money whose value is maintained by the force of government.
EVERYTHING you "own" is that way because the government will intervene if someone tries to relieve you of your stuff
You would not make it to work in the morning without being robbed and left in the ditch if it were not for government police protecting you all the time
No other species other than humans is even remotely concerned about the continuation of the species.
It should be transparently apparent that any species that does not place first emphasis on its own survival is going to perish quickly.
by "thrive" you mean "overpopulate" and "consume all available resources"
if you aren't paying back into the system that you're mooching from, it's not capitalism, it's grift
admittedly sometimes it is hard to tell the difference
who have the skills to run the equipment themselves
this is generally not the issue. renting equipment means that you take possession, you are responsible for damage to it, you have to maintain it. you have to keep it out of the elements and away from vandals if you want your deposit back. you have to transport it you have to rent the trailer to transport it. you have to hire the guy to drive the truck to transport it. you have to find someone to fix it when it breaks.
when you pay for service you don't need any of that. small contractors already have full plates keeping up with the customer, why take on all that other stuff too? besides you can just bill the service straight to the customer with a markup so you still make money on the deal.
Have you noticed that the human species thrived and grew just fine for thousands of years, but suddenly since we discovered money, now the oceans are dying, the tell tress are all cut down, the big mammals are all dying and the gulf of mexico is dead? No, because you are too busy counting the bills in your pocket.
> Well, what if we took some of that welfare money and just bought the factories and then gave them to the labor unions?
Without markets and infrastructure and central planning you'd have a really enormous boondoggle
Socialism cannot succeed in the face of greed, pride, sloth, envy etc
tell us all how our tight embrace of capitalism has enabled our citizens to have good education and health care and a long lifespan
oh wait those are the things that happen in other countries that don't believe in capitalism first
car sharing ventures.
good luck with that whole car sharing thing, will your cooperative be able to refine the fuel for it and pave the roads for it?
Animals do not "expect" anything, their behavior is not driven by rational thought but by the hardwired nature of evolution.
They share because their DNA has been hardwired that way, they don't need motivation or expectation.
It's a basic human desire/nature to want to control the things you have earned,
"Earned" is not in the human nature, everything else in your post revolves around this fallacy.
"Capitalism, as an economic concept, appeals to human nature because the individual controls the "wealth" and distribution.
In capitalism the individual LOSES control over their wealth, they trade actual stuff with actual value, for monetary tokens whose value is controlled by the group. If the group decides that your tokens are worthless, they are worthless.
the collapse and utter disaster of communist countries proved this.
Yeah okay, cuba has a longer life expectancy than the USA, lower infant mortality rates. Who lost the argument and gave up on the embargo? WE DID.
Meanwhile in much of Baltimore, the average citizen doesn't live long enough to collect social security, and yet they pay into it for the future that they don't have.
"get a good job and work hard," " If everyone's even and shares everything, nobody tries and your country sucks."
People work like HELL in this country, much harder than just about any other country. And guess what? This country SUCKS! Our healthcare SUCKS! Our infant mortality rate SUCKS! Our teenage pregnancy rate SUCKS! Our roads SUCK! Our trains SUCK! Our Internet SUCKS! Our jobs SUCK! Our culture SUCKS! Is this what we get for working harder than any other country?
In the meantime, in the places that value lifestyle and family over business, they have BETTER BUSINESS SUCCESS.
responses like yours prove my point, the brainwashing of today's society prevents you from seeing the most basic of truths,
the human species is fundamentally doomed unless it can figure out that its own survival is the most important thing,
every other species thinks this way, but not humans
your anonymity provides great cover for your inability to articulate,
I had to pay a huge amount of money for bond
This should have been your clue that not everyone thinks and behaves like you do, and perhaps you should not project your own values onto other people