Governments also make tradeoffs like that

I remember when it was impossible to know if something had trans fat in it because you don't have to print it in nutrition if its less than 0.5.

Heh..heheh...heheheheh..have you ever seen people longing to get into socialist countries ?

main problem the free market has is that it can only respond to things it knows about.

so if you are good at hiding that your shit causes cancer you a-ok to sell it

And yeah that was what the Pinto was infamous for.

The fiery explosions would be cheaper to settle than to prevent.

Assholes.

@Senny case in point

And the Canadian government used fucking agent orange to clear out flora in the interior

Which results in the same shit

You could argue that a particular company or market exacerbates an issue

But it is incorrect to point to the results of an issue and say "this could only occur in a free market"

Because there is invariably a public option that did the same shit

Sargon has said that the trains have been absolutely packed and miserable ever since they were privatized.

Which surprised me to hear the first time.

Public transit here is pretty miserable and has declared bankruptcy

Multiple times iirc

I think the primary issue with transit is that competition isn't terribly easy to build up

You're not going to have 8 competing train systems in a packed city

So you need to come up with other ways to hold the provider's feet to the fire

Probably doesn't help that it's a union thing either

so, do we get the new place tour today for the second channel ?

the fireplace thing really looks majestic

When I see 'union' in a sentence it's almost never positive.

That's because Unions have forgotten their purpose in a lot of ways

any time I hear union I can only imagine a mob of mobsters trying to force companies to pay them

unions in the us do the opposite of what they are supposed to do

https://youtu.be/bcEfOcEsbDc?t=47s

I can't imagine employing people and paying them so shit they need to get food stamps.

What is it like to be a Walton heir..?

How do they justify it in their heads?

Most people who start business from the ground up can't justify it.

they give to charity

https://media.oglaf.com/comic/crimsonqueen.jpg

Most of those who inherit huge business, have no connection to the people working for them and don't give a shit

and then tell the world how virtuous they are for giving to charity

my dudaroo

their companies that they run provide wages and thus money for houses and food for everyone that works for them

sass them when they let the company go to shit and make people lost their jobs sure

but as long as it works, let them do what works