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In our small town in very Northern California along the coast, the local paper, which is struggling to survive, having just been bought out of receivership, has
by raintrees 7y ago
In our small town in very Northern California along the coast, the local paper, which is struggling to survive, having just been bought out of receivership, has decided to start delivering the paper via USPS to avoid this law's ramifications with the paper delivery router people.
So more jobs lost, thanks to legislation to protect a certain group of people.
Hazlitt would have recommended examining the law's merits prior to passage to see if it 1) Benefited only a group of people, not the whole, and 2) Did not help the whole in the long run (paraphrased).
- greglindahl 7y agoJobs lost? If the paper had failed I could see that jobs were lost, but changing from one delivery system to another doesn't seem to be jobs lost?
- lwf 7y agoIncreasing mail volume by one newspaper per household will not result in a comparable increase in mail carriers -- they're making the trips anyways.
- asdff 7y agoBetter for the environment and traffic to not have two vans roll up to your house a day.
- so_tobeclear 7y agoUh, he's taking about a paper route. Like a paper boy. Remember that video game, riding your bike up the diagonal street? So yeah, those jobs in that small town will end the same way they've ended in every town, with mail carriers