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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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred and
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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Replying to @DTLawhon @AustenAllred and
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@alon_levy's work and research. His theory as to why this is the case changes every time I talk him. But my California explanation has to do with the way our state culturally and legally treats unearned land increment.https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1078169110826180608 …Kim-Mai Cutler added,
Kim-Mai CutlerVerified account @kimmaicutlerIn Japan, train companies can earn revenue from rents in surrounding station areas on top of fares. In CA, we can invest billions in infrastructure and subsequent spikes in nearby land/property values are captured almost wholly by the people who happen to own nearby property. https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/1078168004360171520 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
which is -- again -- deeply rooted, in how our society perceives how public and private value is created/allocated, and then reflects that in its laws and institutions.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred and
I love the potential for using captured land value to subsidize public works construction. I remember reading that thread and learning a tremendous amount.
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Replying to @DTLawhon @AustenAllred and
the problem is we can't even have that as a policy until we have a robust public understanding about how this works, how the US is exception (in a bad way), how other transit systems fund themselves, etc.
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