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I came to believe that these negative forces are all around us. They are constantly at play. As the landscape changes, they adapt to the new realities, but are
by koliber 8y ago
I came to believe that these negative forces are all around us. They are constantly at play. As the landscape changes, they adapt to the new realities, but are mostly invisible.
When a big company comes is with a sudden alteration to the "environment", these negative forces respond, with a force that is congruous to the speed at which the original change happened.
If a change in society happens quickly, it is very visible. All the reactions also happen quickly and are also very visible.
If the change happens slowly, the reactions also follow gradually and slowly, and everything seems less drastic and less noticeable.
- Tepix 8y agoIf you put hundreds of vehicles on the streets that cost $500 each you need to seriously think about people taking advantage of you, even if it amounts to stealing. You must not make it too easy and intriguing. "Gelegenheit macht Diebe" - "Opportunity makes the thief"
- sschueller 8y agoEspecially if your headquarters is across the ocean you just dumped theses things all over a foreign city with permission.
- chrisweekly 8y agowith -> without?
- amyjess 8y agoIf the flood of bikeshare companies in Dallas are any indication, it's "with". The Dallas City Council passed a law allowing dockless bikeshare, and suddenly about six Chinese companies all dumped hundreds—if not thousands—of bikes each in Dallas, causing every kind of externality you can imagine. Dallas opened the door a crack, and the companies stampeded through hard enough to break the frame.
- mikestew 8y agoUpvote for the metaphor I’m going to steal one of these days. Credit to the Dallas council for at least the appearance of progress, debit for not thinking through the externalities.
- goobynight 8y agoIn my opinion, transportation theft needs to be punished more severely than other theft of the same value. Let's put it on the order of years, not just for Bird's sake. bicycles are a unique combination of valuable, vulnerable, and hard to catch the theft of. When society does catch someone doing this, we should be putting them away on the order of years. Just my opinion though.
- dralley 8y agoYears? Are you serious? A $500 theft should not put anyone in prison for "years". That's nuts.
- Scoundreller 8y agoSure. If it’s your primary mode of transportation and one of your biggest assets, it’s a hard hit to take. Setting arbitrary minimums for investigating thefts just means only rich people’s losses are deemed important. This is basically a discussiom about negative externalities, and the negative externalities are harsher when you steal 10% for a thousandaire vs. 10% from a millionaire.
- justtopost 8y agoStealing a horse used to carry a death sentance. Depriving someone of their transport is more devistating than having your xbox lifted.
- jedmeyers 8y ago> I came to believe that these negative forces are all around us. You mean people putting their own interests first?
- koliber 8y agoThere are many ways of stating what is happening and reasoning why. I tried to shy away from controversy and wanted to point out that there is nothing inherent in scooters that brings bad behavior out. It's just that the scooters arrived so fast caused the bad behavior to also arrive quickly, and that is why it is so noticeable.
- will_brown 8y agoWell there is something inheriently bad about a private company littering public spaces and walkways with their shitty products. I mean if I could litter crap all over the homes of the founders and investors of these companies, what do you think would happen?