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It honestly feels like short term thinking is dominating not only businesses, but government officials too. It boggles my mind, frankly, because of the exact th
by falcolas 5y ago
It honestly feels like short term thinking is dominating not only businesses, but government officials too. It boggles my mind, frankly, because of the exact things you mentioned: losing citizens, economic damage, and so forth.
Perhaps the incentives just aren’t there to think long term, for either business leaders or politicians.
- soco 5y agoCould it have something to do with which party supporters are gonna lose more if internet is slow? Can internet be linked in some way to poll results?
- akkartik 5y agoConspiracy theory time: if you get rid of cities your state will turn reliably red. That way lies the Khmer Rouge..
- mbg721 5y agoAh, the grand plan is to complete the process of rust-belt de-industrialization and turn Ohio into the Shire! It all makes perfect sense now...
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThey would still have 2 Senate votes.
- 8note 5y agoThe Shire is a bit too happy of a place to vote Republican. You need people to be angry and afraid
- alentist 5y agoThe Khmer Rouge was a left-wing (Communist) genocidal regime.
- 8note 5y agoIs that to say you don't think right wingers are capable of genocide? Or that they wouldnt do it to people in cities? If it's purely informational for people who don't know what the Khmer Rouge is, it'd be handy to include why its a comparable situation
- alentist 5y agoInstead of this knee-jerk reaction, why don't you first read the comment I'm replying to? > it'd be handy to include why its a comparable situation akkartik made that bizarre comparison, not me.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoAlmost certainly not. When you make things marginally worse across the board on an infrastructure matter (in this case by reducing competition) rural areas almost always lose more.
- unyttigfjelltol 5y agoPolitics is business. Business is about making money. From those foundational facts, it's fair to infer that if state Republican politicians are working to ban cities from providing basic services, the politicians are doing this because they think they can make money doing it. It's wrong. But then, politics, in its current incarnation, is business.
- theshadowknows 5y agoAnd more importantly, make money for themselves and not for the city/state etc.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThe only reason people hate graft more than they hate boondoggles is because in the former case it's nearly impossible to bury your head in the sand and pretend like the money was smartly allocated. No matter how you cut it at the end of the day the tax dollars are being squandered on lining pockets they shouldn't be.
- theshadowknows 5y agoExtra points for using 'boondoggles' in a sentence :)
- thayne 5y agoIt's not surprising. Elected officials care more about getting reelected in the next election than long term effects of their decisions. So they are incentivized to care more about the short term.
- mavhc 5y agoIn my new world order we'll vote to fire people in charge, not to hire them
- vegetablepotpie 5y agoWe have a system like that with judges in some states. Examples of judges failing to be retained are sparse https://ballotpedia.org/Retention_election https://ballotpedia.org/Retention_election