goda90

Sounds horrific!

My reply is in response to this statement:

"I don't think most Americans have a problem with rich people buying nice houses and nice cars, and using their wealth to pay for private staff. I think the real problem is how much of the wealth is allowed to stay off public markets. Cargill is worth more than $50 billion and its stock is not available on public markets. The growth in wealth of most AI companies - Anthropic, OpenAI - happened off of public markets, and so none of it trickled into the American middle class by their retirement accounts."

I don't think most Americans are thinking about their 401Ks when it comes to corporate behavior. They're thinking about high prices, lower quality, poor service, externalities(pollution and such), low wages, poor working conditions. I don't think public markets will fix those things, and some argue they'd make them worse.

> Had this really not been done before? Apparently not on land. Ferries are an ancient idea, both for crossing water bodies and for traveling along them. They are fixed routes, of course, but that’s mostly because the shore is fixed. Pascal’s idea was that even though carriages could go from anywhere to anywhere on Paris’s street network, a special kind of usefulness would arise if they didn’t do that, but instead followed paths that people could remember and plan around.

While not exactly a transit system, there were fixed trade and courier routes before this where the dependability and consistency induced build up and improvements around the route. There were probably even times and places you could hitch a ride on someone's cart or group up with others for safety because of how well the routes were used.

Why does this attitude still exist?

People want 4k, HDR, 60+ inches.

Not if the government is for, by, and of the people.

Ejecting the warp core is a common strategy.

Your app ecosystem might decrease as developers who don't want to register lose interest and the number of users supporting open source projects decreases.

You're the horse in this analogy.