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This is hilarious to me. If you find something valuable, your proposal is to take it and have it "owned by the world?" And I thought our presidential candidate
by sushid 10y ago
This is hilarious to me. If you find something valuable, your proposal is to take it and have it "owned by the world?" And I thought our presidential candidate were bad.
- smacktoward 10y agoIt's not crazy, it happens sometimes with private businesses that grow into critical public infrastructure. New York City's subway system is one example. It started out in the 1900s as a couple of private companies, Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) and Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT). The lines these two companies operated suffered more and more over time from overcrowding, leading the city to establish a third, public system in the '30s, and then in 1940 to just buy out IRT and BRT and merge all three systems into the single, publicly-operated network that serves NYC today. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_Subway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_S... for more on this.)
- omouse 10y agohttps://boingboing.net/2016/10/04/proposal-turn-twitter-into-a.html https://boingboing.net/2016/10/04/proposal-turn-twitter-into... It can happen, co-operatives are a viable business model. My bank is a co-operative and they work for their member-owners.