Call it Chariot then instead of tunneling. That was meant to serve as a very generic example, I’m not defending boring co specifically
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred and
Uh... Chariot is also not a good example. It shut down this week. One relative disadvantage of the private system is that it can generate a incoherent, hard-to-navigate cornucopia of conflicting services that are ad-hoc and can randomly shut down.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred and
Large swathes of the federal government is literally shut down because someone wants to waste billions of dollars on an ineffective solution to a nonexistent problem.
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Replying to @DTLawhon @kimmaicutler and
I don't think you can conclusively say that, without taking competence and accountability systems into account, that any given organizational structure is inherently better than another.
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Replying to @DTLawhon @kimmaicutler and
Government working at its theoretical best beats incompetent private industry, and private industry working at its theoretical best beats incompetent government. That doesn't tell you anything useful, though.
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Replying to @DTLawhon @AustenAllred and
there is a larger cultural context here where the person responsible for that decision was elected on the belief that a businessman with ostensibly deep private sector experience could solve large-scale public problems
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @DTLawhon and
this is after an entire generation of messaging & political advertising from the early 1980s onward about how government is the problem and not the solution, and how that particular messaging came to saturate an entire political party.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @DTLawhon and
And I think that’s the error in the response - confusing “hey we can do part of x well” for “the government shouldn’t do x”
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred and
I hear you, this is a complicated part of messaging though. You have to constantly repeat "I want to improve X in this way" *and* I recognize the value of, say, the CA community college system, which operates at scale of 2M students/year
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @DTLawhon and
I don’t understand why you have to always caveat that. I don’t think you should. Saying “I like x” does not necessarily indicate “everything but x is bad” and the people who jump to that conclusion are to blame
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a savvy founder operating in a highly complicated/regulated space where they're competing with/complementing a chronically underfunded public system would be wise to both break new ground and not create enemies w said chronically underfunded system
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred and
if it's a private, rent-seeking incumbent, sure, whatever, go for it. But if you're talking about community colleges or public mass transit that are effectively what serve millions of low-income Americans at scale, would not advise.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred and
But many of the public transit systems in question *aren't* underfunded, they work far less effectively than their peers in Europe and Asia. Great NY Times article delving into this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html …
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