Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I have learned so much today. For example, I never knew that liberalism and socialism were congruent.
Do you call Texas fascist?
technically the typical approach is more fascist than socialist in Seattle. Gov't might not own and operate the means of production (e.g. the taxi company) but they regulate and control it to the point where private ownership becomes a legal fiction. I use socialism loosely, because so few people know the definition of either socialism or fascism. Maybe an even better word for this is 'corporatism.' I will offer a revised post:
Quote:
Originally Posted by revised post
All in all, it's an unexpected breakdown of the normal crony capitalist, restricted market model that is normally inviolate in corporatist Seattle.
It is illegal in many areas to provide someone a ride in exchange for money without a taxi/limousine license.
So you buy I'll fly is illegal? Never knew about that one. Will camera's need to be installed by the liberal fascists to ensure that no dollars are exchanged for gas money soon?
So you buy I'll fly is illegal? Never knew about that one. Will camera's need to be installed by the liberal fascists to ensure that no dollars are exchanged for gas money soon?
If you think so. You guys are calling for a bad state of things with all your cameras and overregulation.
YOUR guys are in charge. YOU love every second of the madness that is being thrust upon this country. YOU are the problem.
If only it were true. You and your elected official, Obama are a much bigger part of the problem than you realize. Deny it all you want, but it just shows how little you know.
I found this comment attached to one of the stories:
Quote:
Originally Posted by micropotomous
June 17, 2013 7:13 PM
The tipping point may come when the Public Transit gravy train feels threatened by the thought that sufficient car-owners might enter the business to enable infinite point-to-point ridesharing - which will demolish the crude paradigm of the Point A-to-Point B paradigm. The political clout of the Public Transit Establishment may well add a well-fattened thumb on the scales, against the hopeful concept of affordable point-to-point ridesharing.
Eventually I think algorithms and software will be developed to allow choreographing of driver routes and rider requests to optimize efficiency and wait times. So if a driver is taking rider x from 40th street to 20th street, and rider y requests a ride from 30th to 20th, the driver can stop and pick up the 2nd rider. This is exactly the kind of thing computers are great at. This will render mass transit obsolete, or at least relegated to specialized use.
Environmentalists should love it ('should' being the key word). It would greatly reduce single-occupancy vehicles, make it possible for many to give up on private car ownership, do away with all the buses running around w/ only 2 or 3 passengers etc. Pub. sector unions won't like it, though.
technically the typical approach is more fascist than socialist in Seattle. Gov't might not own and operate the means of production (e.g. the taxi company) but they regulate and control it to the point where private ownership becomes a legal fiction. I use socialism loosely, because so few people know the definition of either socialism or fascism. Maybe an even better word for this is 'corporatism.' I will offer a revised post:
Actually you would be surprised how much the taxi companies that have the medallions are pressuring cities that do this to not expand the number of medallions. We just had an issue here in New York where the cab companies were fighting it hard to prevent any expansion of them because it would mean more competition and would lower the value of the current medallions. This is again, private industry pressuring control on the public.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
