Post AcVT8kjA8SSd6gCEZE by Lando@infosec.town
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 (DIR) Post #AcVT8kjA8SSd6gCEZE by Lando@infosec.town
       2023-12-05T17:43:52.353Z
       
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       Unpopular opinion time:“What happened to the US rail roads? They used to be the world standard, now they barely exist”The New Deal happened. It established the US Interstate system that we tied directly into our city infrastructures. Those routes follow federal directives. Later deregulation of the railroads allowed them to consolidate and decline. “Why are our cities so reliant on personal car ownership?” The new deal. See above. “But didn’t the new deal help us get out to the Great Depression?”Yes, but not as much as becoming an arms factory to fuel the European war effort.“Why is our foreign policy secretary to destabilize the world?”To fuel the industry mentioned above. “So why did the trains die again?”Because we built a lot of cars and planes during the war and continued to sell them to consumers after. “Why do we have a gun issue?”See above, but add guns to the list.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcVT8lslqDjyglhQBM by mayonesa@berserker.town
       2023-12-05T17:45:09Z
       
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       @Lando The unions happened.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcVTWbhBMqfm2pe2Jk by Lando@infosec.town
       2023-12-05T17:48:20.197Z
       
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       @mayonesa Unions are meant to be the workers representing themselves to negotiate their terms. The moment you have third-party for-profit ventures stepping in, you don’t have a union, you just have external HR and a second set of bosses.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcVTWcT2UuxCRG2Fua by mayonesa@berserker.town
       2023-12-05T17:49:28Z
       
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       @Lando And yet, all unions go this way.They are a bad idea like most of what humanity does.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcVUaQrDhmYpXkjB32 by Lando@infosec.town
       2023-12-05T17:54:57.947Z
       
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       @mayonesa I disagree that all unions are bad. Some bring much needed change. Some actually are on the side of the workers. Our society would be objectively worse without any of them. But some are so bad that the word itself has been tainted.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcVUaRom8MCQWSajsO by mayonesa@berserker.town
       2023-12-05T18:01:22Z
       
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       @Lando When something keeps screwing up... it's a bad method.