Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se...
by harimau777 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @09:47PM
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A problem with this strategy is that libraries are often used by the homeless in order to study and apply for jobs.
Librarians also provide expertise in sourcing knowledge that isn't available online; particularly with the way that Google search has evolved.
Larger libraries also provide archivist roles and even small libraries may serve to archive local news and history.
Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se...
by linuxftw on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:00AM
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Everything is a cost/benefit analysis. Do libraries provide some services that home internet can't? Yes. Does that make them overall a better investment? No.
There's already unemployment agencies. Maybe they can setup computers to assist the homeless. Or you know, the homeless shelter could have a computer for job searching.
Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se...
by harimau777 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:54AM
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Certainly it would be possible to re-create the services provided by libraries elsewhere; but at that point haven't we just re-created the library?
I would vote for this. Whatever we spend on public libraries, that money could be used to bring every residence land-line high-speed internet access.
I would also defund all public schools. Charter schools seem to be the future, but the legion of bureaucrats don't want to let go of their communist indoctrination pipeline.
As a tax payer, I don't want to subsidize people sending letters or packages. Much of the back haul and distribution has already been contracted out anyway.
> It's a minimum of $11 for UPS to come pickup your package at a residential address
Yeah, that's the real cost of that service. The fact that it's free for the USPS doing it means you're using other people's money.