This is the end goal of neoliberalism. All public transit is liquidated and we are left with "innovative" startups that provide cheaper fares for Pell Grant recipients who start businesses that operate for three years in disadvantaged communities.
You jest, but that actually is the program. You liquidate the existing public transit programs and divert organizational energy of the workers into getting back what they already had. Then you blue ball them when their movement picks up steam by announcing an "innovative" transit solution (from a private company). It turns out to just be another vaporware gadgetbahn that gets millions and millions in public finding for a single broken prototype that takes 5 years to be unveiled before getting mothballed 2 months later.
In the meantime you've successfully diverted organizing energy away from other projects, you've satiated the liberals by making headlines and doing "innovation" and you've funneled millions out of the public purse into a shell company for someone who you work for. So goes the cycle of austerity. Doesn't end until we just kill them and bury their bodies under the tram tracks they paved of over.
Oh I exaggerated a little bit but you're completely right. See: the almost complete dismantling of public transit in the U.S. due to the "innovation" of the car (which really just causes traffic and pollution).
This is the end goal of neoliberalism. All public transit is liquidated and we are left with "innovative" startups that provide cheaper fares for Pell Grant recipients who start businesses that operate for three years in disadvantaged communities.
You jest, but that actually is the program. You liquidate the existing public transit programs and divert organizational energy of the workers into getting back what they already had. Then you blue ball them when their movement picks up steam by announcing an "innovative" transit solution (from a private company). It turns out to just be another vaporware gadgetbahn that gets millions and millions in public finding for a single broken prototype that takes 5 years to be unveiled before getting mothballed 2 months later.
In the meantime you've successfully diverted organizing energy away from other projects, you've satiated the liberals by making headlines and doing "innovation" and you've funneled millions out of the public purse into a shell company for someone who you work for. So goes the cycle of austerity. Doesn't end until we just kill them and bury their bodies under the tram tracks they paved of over.
Oh I exaggerated a little bit but you're completely right. See: the almost complete dismantling of public transit in the U.S. due to the "innovation" of the car (which really just causes traffic and pollution).