Right-libertarian "think-tank" founded by Charles Koch of the Koch Brothers (unfortunately still living).
They let a lady from the CATO institute participate in the Gamestop hearings. She was treated like some expert who was allowed to share all kinds of Koch propaganda, meanwhile Keith Gill is doing his best Virgil impression and even got cutoff by a rep from his own state.
Eating a home-made dinner is less convenient than eating the protein bars from Snowpiercer, less euphoric than MDMA and requires more groceries than either one.
Hear me out: instead of walls or guillotines, ghouls get the rail-pillow. It's really efficient, easily scalable (virtually infinitely), you don't need to build especialized infraestructure for the thing, many people can enjoy and participate in the process via getting on the chop-chop-choo-choo, and it's really on brand.
On one track there is the proletariat, on the other the ruling class. Everyone agrees we should pull the lever, but there's a cop in the way and no one can agree how best to merc him.
Are executioners required to wear top hats, black curly mustaches, and pale green makeup?
If you read the linked article , this guy want's to replace every arterial road in the United States with a freeway
But if the world was a solid pavement sphere painted white, the albedo would increase a lot actually cooling the atmosphere and solving climate change.
Gotta love the blatant framing: if rail better for environment, how come building rail causes emissions? checkmate
but ahem sir did you consider the utility of all the added enjoyment from driving a car or flying a private plane?
The joy of being caged in a two ton metal shit going at 100 km/h surrounded of dozens of two ton metal cages going even faster, all of them controlled by intoxicated and stressed monkeys, a very comfy thing to do yes.
I do like driving, like across a natural place or rural zone, dirt road or freeway, but not fucking commuting.
I think the utility argument is also affected by the 'negative utility' of the world that capital creates. An example for the sake of argument: you would want a car in a cyberpunk dystopia because maybe everyone is out to kill you on public transport. A less extreme example is like, you need that enjoyable product even worse now because your daily life is so atomized and alienated.
Hate for public mass transit is just hate for the poor.
Except for buses that have too many stops, god I hate them
Except for buses that have too many stops, god I hate them
Counter-point: buses with no fare can still make good time on a route even with a lot of stops cause people get off/on quickly.
you're going to moralize about my dystopia example? what if poor people had real reason to fear other poor people? it's not their fault that society left them to duke it out in a mad max style dystopia
Ah I get your point. Anyways, it's like saying "If a person puts a gun in your head and made you choose between eating your own shit or eating somebody elses shit. Well eatig your own shit is the better thing to do"
Unless you have one of the very many conditions that fecal transplant bacteriotherapy is an effective treatment for. The more people's poop you eat, the stronger you get. Its like highlander, but for gut flora.
Yes but you need the good poopoo delivered to your intestines without going thrpugh the stomach acids
yes absolutely. this is how I think capital treats most people, and how decision making in such a market works: they discourage social bonds and replace them with goods and services, suddenly those goods seem more necessary and the utility increases and the economist smiles
Amtrak isn't even amazing (although maybe better than what youd expect from America), and I still get super excited to take a long distance train. Its so relaxing. The last time I was on one was when I took a train from PA to Mass. to knock doors for Bernie, and it was two 7 hour rides but I loved it. You can read, you can listen to music, you can sleep; you can actually see scenery, unlike planes. Theyre so fun!
Europe trains are the best. Seats, sometimes tables, power points, wi fi. At least a food kiosk and sometimes a dining car. And reasonably cheap if you get a yearly ticket or a student pass. There's a big movement there to not fly as well because of it. They sometimes go a little too fast, though. Once you hit 300kph you really feel the speed.
I've taken one once and it was fun, but the price was comparable to just flying. Granted this was ages ago and flying prices have gone up a lot.
There is some truth that HSR isn't super "economical" in many areas of the U.S., and isn't a magic bullet (heh) despite the meme. Of course, many "economically" based decisions fail to price in environmental and social impacts, just because something generates more profit on a "free" market doesn't mean it's a good decision.
It's also obvious that air travel and more, more, more freeways aren't the only alternative to HSR.
High-speed rail is definitely more expensive than sour grapes. :xi-lib-tears:
less convenient than driving
Except for the whole owning a decaying pile of planet destroying machinery part of driving.
High Speed Rail causes climate change.
High Speed Rail is a capitulation to China.
High Speed Rail hurts America's heartland.
High Speed Rail will slap your mamma and murder your dog.
Ok, where do I collect my check?
