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Re:Before wave of train thefts, Union Pacific laid off some ... by Manuel_D on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:05PM (#30003421)
There's plenty of shortages caused not by capital, but by government. Like restrictive zoning and price controls suppressing housing construction. I fail to see how UP railroad is complicit in the scarcity that may be driving some to steal from trains.
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Re:Before wave of train thefts, Union Pacific laid off some ... by Lammy on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:12PM (#30003496)
> not by capital, but by government

These are the same thing though. The former is the incentive mechanism to achieve the designs of the latter. It's just filtered through enough layers like Vanguard and Berkshire and friends that people don't notice. Hands up if you've worked somewhere funded by In-Q-Tel, for example (I have!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

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