• Sinistar
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    9 months ago

    I wonder if you could even get tubes installed nowadays. You would probably have to spin up a bespoke company to install them, hiring a bunch of people who've never done it before and training as you go, and then everyone would lose their job at the end of the process.

    Just like building railcars in the US.

    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      Founding a tube-based startup with a silly name missing a letter in it like Tubr or something, and you've gotta pay a subscription to keep access to your tubes, but you can send packages through them to other Tubr subscribers

      • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        You and a friend have to change your names so you can make the spunky new mail tube startup, 2-Bueller

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      9 months ago

      Nah. Hospitals and certain labs still build new tube systems to move samples or radioactive material around, and some stadiums actually use them to do money drops. They've just largely been replaced in most office buildings by email, since the things usually sent in office towers were usually just papers.