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‘It’s the same daily misery’: Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency
(www.theguardian.com)
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Infrastructure delivers more economic impact with less grifting when it's not designed and run to make a profit on its own.
Right? When did we start becoming concerned with a public service being "profitable"? I've heard this applied to the US Postal Service a lot recently.
"The postal service is losing money!"
No, the postal service costs money. It's a service. It doesn't aim to make a profit. It costs money, and we are in turn rendered a service that is useful.
I swear people are delusional.
Conservatives want to kill the postal service because it competes with for profit services they own and invest in. See: DeJoy
Yet nobody ever expects the road system to turn a profit. Why should trains be any different?
I first remember it becoming an issue when a failed businessman turned president wanted to run the country like one of his failed businesses.
Late 80s, early 90s, with the rise of the rise of the Chicago School of neoliberalism.
Depends how you calculate profit.