Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Longshoreman on Strike: US Ports Get Shut Down || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. They already exist, both naturally (America's trucking and rail companies) and policies limiting "8th Freedom" cabotage along with the Fly America Act that prevents even more demand for foreign carriers into the US altogether.
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  2. Enrolling and maintaining payments isn't so trivial though. Any paywall is a significant barrier even if the price was a penny a year.
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  3. Efficiency and resilience are competing interests. Unfortunately profit-demanding corporate laws and pro-capitalist attitudes prioritize efficiency to benefit relatively transient shareholders over longer-term stakeholders (which includes customers, employees, and the public at large).
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  4. Efficiency and resilience are competing interests.
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  5. But it's sooo efficient, which means better returns to the balance sheet and stock price. Sadly it does come at the expense of resilience.
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  6. Luddites weren't necessarily against industrialization, but more the sudden collapse of wages and autonomy as their careers are callously replaced by unskilled factory workers with government support.
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