trains and socialism

[akpret]

AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!

i cant even talk to people

because im surrounded by such insanity.

i cant talk to people cause of the car culture

[adjohnson916]

if a private company doesn't ensure the safety of its train and one crashes, the people will no longer trust that company and they will lose the opportunity to do business in that community forever after. Therefore it is in the company's interest to regulate itself.

I am a democratic socialist moving in the anarcho-syndicalist/anarcho-ca­pitalist direction.

[oldhacks]

who would hire the private company? would they just do it because it was the right thing to do and do it all not for profit? if they're doing it for profit who would pay them? the passengers would obviously. the train company isn't going to spend money regulating themselves if they don't have to. anarcho syndicalist / demo-soc. same dif. too many damn terms. I'm a socialist. I'll die a socialist.

you're theory sounds great. the only problem is wheres the money to regulate them coming from?

[adjohnson916]

Nobody would have to hire the company. It could buy the rights to run lines through the city.

Any company could be founded and run by its workers or even by the community itself if that is what people wanted, as long as it remains efficient and competitive.

They may do it for profit, but they may choose not to.

It wouldn't be free from the government either...taxes.

PS- In Minneapolis MN the Goverment's 35W bridge collapsed & killed people. So much for safety. Government is dead.

[oldhacks]

not to mention we cant even build a train because of all the federal agencies that are built to protect big oil and big industry and keep us trapped in our cars.

[adjohnson916]

I definitely agree that federal agencies are built to protect big oil and big auto industry, and that is stopping train innovation. In my opinion though, that is the nature of most forms of government, and that is just another argument for anarcho-socialism/anarcho-synd­icalism/anarcho-capitalism.

Another thing stopping it is the people. See people are animals, and the desire things selfishly. People want cars. If they didn't, ridership on city buses & street cars & light rail would increase.

[oldhacks]

you know what else would make people ride trains and buses more?

if they actually built and maintained some...