Re:OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
by vrganj on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:44AM
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> Note that the postal system is a for-profit system.
That depends on the country in question :-)
Re:OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
by fineIllregister on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:24AM
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> Note that the (edit: US) postal system is a for-profit system.
That's not correct. If USPS makes more revenue than their expenses for a year, they can't pay it out as profits to anyone.
It's true that USPS is intended to be self-funded, covering it's costs through postage and services sold, and not tax revunue. That doesn't mean there's profit anywhere.
Re:OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
by Supermancho on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:20PM
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> Note that the (edit: US) postal system is a for-profit system.
Pricing in the US postal system is not based on maximizing profit. Ths US postal system is not a for-profit system, at all. It is a delivery system (more or less) that happened to start turning a profit (2006) until PAEA. After that, the next time it made a profit was 2025.
Re:OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
by happyopossum on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:44PM
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The USPS is self funding, not for-profit. The difference is both significant and consequential.
Given the trends of the capitalist US government, which constantly cedes more and more power to the private sector, especially google and apple, I assume we'll end up with a state-run model infrastructure as soon as we replace the government with Google, at which point Gemini simply becomes state infrastructure.