Beneficial free market theories hardly ever work in an employment context. Because the power between employer and employee is so very imbalanced. The reality of the situation is more command & control rather than market exchange.
The effective government subsidy for long distance truck transport has several effects on the food supply.
* Availability of non-local food varieties * Availability of out-of-season foods * Pressure for regional-export-oriented monoculture farming * Centralization of food distribution infrastructure
That last one's a real bitch, and in my opinion something of a national security issue. Take for example my hometown, a metropolitan region of about 3.5 million people in the Rust Belt. ALL fresh produce for the entire region flows through a single enormous warehouse in one of the suburbs. My brother used to work in this business. Even "farmers markets" mostly get their produce from the central warehouse.
A single Soviet airstrike - remember, the Red Scare is on again! - would cripple food distribution for the entire region. No doubt the current system is penny-pinching efficient. But that narrow-minded sort of efficiency comes at the cost of a complete loss of resilience.
Most of the NYC subway was built by private, for-profit companies. Back around ~1910-ish.
It would be an interesting and worthwhile thing to study. To see how they assembled the rights of way, without resort to the government's power of eminent domain.
Small-city folks tend to automatically associate public transport with the welfare underclass. So new transit infrastructure is built with that audience in mind. Resulting in routes that are inconvenient or useless to the masses of commuters.
Whereas in New York City you'll see *everyone*, from hedge fund managers to ordinary workers to welfare recipients, riding the subway. Because the subways were built as true mass transit, serving a *mass* audience.
In second tier American cities, public transit projects often seem designed for failure. I suspect this is mostly a cultural thing, a shortcoming of collective imagination and will.
Remember back in the day, when Uber used to charge the same as a liveried taxi but just provide way better service? That business model seemed to work well.
But I guess since it wasn't a race to the bottom for the drivers, the VC scoundrels weren't satisfied.
Remember the old Republic, back when America was still a free country? Somehow that worked just fine without paramilitary police death squads lurking in every city. Really I don't give a shit if a few criminals get away, if that's the price for living in a free society.
Nah. It won't do jack to the number of prank calls. And the number of SWAT murders will continue to rise until civil society gets enough backbone to eject these occupying armies from our cities.
All draconian punishments will do is feed more lives into the Gulag meat grinder.
but I think you are still buying into the whole "google are different from everyone else", which I don't)
Nope. I've never seen any "bro culture" anywhere in the software industry. So far as I can tell, it's a complete fabrication by propagandists with an agenda to push.
Now maybe you've seen something different. Or maybe you work in a different industry? I've never worked with programmers who talked about going to strip clubs. Salesmen, sure, but not actual tech people.
America does not need SWAT teams. We don't need an occupying army with tanks and machine guns rampaging through our city streets.
Disband all SWAT team is now! Return to civilian policing!
For that once-a-year situation that's too much for normal cops to handle, that's why we have a National Guard. In the other 99.999% of the situations there is no need for a paramilitary response.
Back when I lived in that great sewer of humanity, the Bay Area, I met quite a few Googledouches at social events. All of them had a really very high opinion of themselves, often to the point of being bores. Snobby, yes. Politically correct, yes. Capitalist dogs, yes. Drug addled, yes. Cultish, yes.
But exactly ZERO of them were anything remotely similar to the "bro" stereotype that's being flogged so damned hard by the Financialist propaganda organs. Look at my posting history, all of it - I'm definitely not a fan or defender of Google. But this charge strikes me as OBVIOUSLY false.
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Beneficial free market theories hardly ever work in an employment context. Because the power between employer and employee is so very imbalanced. The reality of the situation is more command & control rather than market exchange.
Subscribe to a self-driving car today - serfdom has never been this convenient!
The effective government subsidy for long distance truck transport has several effects on the food supply.
* Availability of non-local food varieties
* Availability of out-of-season foods
* Pressure for regional-export-oriented monoculture farming
* Centralization of food distribution infrastructure
That last one's a real bitch, and in my opinion something of a national security issue. Take for example my hometown, a metropolitan region of about 3.5 million people in the Rust Belt. ALL fresh produce for the entire region flows through a single enormous warehouse in one of the suburbs. My brother used to work in this business. Even "farmers markets" mostly get their produce from the central warehouse.
A single Soviet airstrike - remember, the Red Scare is on again! - would cripple food distribution for the entire region. No doubt the current system is penny-pinching efficient. But that narrow-minded sort of efficiency comes at the cost of a complete loss of resilience.
Most of the NYC subway was built by private, for-profit companies. Back around ~1910-ish.
It would be an interesting and worthwhile thing to study. To see how they assembled the rights of way, without resort to the government's power of eminent domain.
Small-city folks tend to automatically associate public transport with the welfare underclass. So new transit infrastructure is built with that audience in mind. Resulting in routes that are inconvenient or useless to the masses of commuters.
Whereas in New York City you'll see *everyone*, from hedge fund managers to ordinary workers to welfare recipients, riding the subway. Because the subways were built as true mass transit, serving a *mass* audience.
In second tier American cities, public transit projects often seem designed for failure. I suspect this is mostly a cultural thing, a shortcoming of collective imagination and will.
Remember back in the day, when Uber used to charge the same as a liveried taxi but just provide way better service? That business model seemed to work well.
But I guess since it wasn't a race to the bottom for the drivers, the VC scoundrels weren't satisfied.
Remember the old Republic, back when America was still a free country? Somehow that worked just fine without paramilitary police death squads lurking in every city. Really I don't give a shit if a few criminals get away, if that's the price for living in a free society.
Fake-progressive trolls sure do hate freedom of political speech.
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Twilight of the Idols, by Nietzsche
Nah. It won't do jack to the number of prank calls. And the number of SWAT murders will continue to rise until civil society gets enough backbone to eject these occupying armies from our cities.
All draconian punishments will do is feed more lives into the Gulag meat grinder.
but I think you are still buying into the whole "google are different from everyone else", which I don't)
Nope. I've never seen any "bro culture" anywhere in the software industry. So far as I can tell, it's a complete fabrication by propagandists with an agenda to push.
Now maybe you've seen something different. Or maybe you work in a different industry? I've never worked with programmers who talked about going to strip clubs. Salesmen, sure, but not actual tech people.
And yet your "witty" retort itself contains a miscapitalization. Perhaps an illustration that:
a) typographical errors != grammatical errors
b) text input on a mobile device is prone to typos
and
c) Slashdot's mobile interface sucks donkey balls
Imho grammar is at least a important as math. If a person speaks like an illiterate rube, chances are he'll program like one too.
Stop licking those jackboots. If a murder occurred, the SWAT thug would be the murderer.
Yes community service sounds reasonable for a dumb phone prank.
Moar Gulag now!!
That's a tyrannically disproportionate response to the crime.
Feed the Gulag!
Silly troll - in Soviet America, *everything* is illegal.
America does not need SWAT teams. We don't need an occupying army with tanks and machine guns rampaging through our city streets.
Disband all SWAT team is now! Return to civilian policing!
For that once-a-year situation that's too much for normal cops to handle, that's why we have a National Guard. In the other 99.999% of the situations there is no need for a paramilitary response.
Back when I lived in that great sewer of humanity, the Bay Area, I met quite a few Googledouches at social events. All of them had a really very high opinion of themselves, often to the point of being bores. Snobby, yes. Politically correct, yes. Capitalist dogs, yes. Drug addled, yes. Cultish, yes.
But exactly ZERO of them were anything remotely similar to the "bro" stereotype that's being flogged so damned hard by the Financialist propaganda organs. Look at my posting history, all of it - I'm definitely not a fan or defender of Google. But this charge strikes me as OBVIOUSLY false.
Maybe you're just a prude.
You first.
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