Maybe, maybe later, since he knows they’re leaving now and he’s still going to the palace, and probably realizes he will have to deal with stabilizing things on Lamia for some time. I think right now he’s manning up and apologizing for the joke candy dig — which Loria was not offended by because she agreed with the sentiment behind it, and just maybe appreciated the compliment it contained (“appealing on the outside”).
I have to disagree on this. Private companies are always out to maximize their profits. And there’s loads and loads of infrastructure that does not immediately benefit them – so way should they be interested in it?
What sort of infrastructure? Water and wastewater are privately
owned, as is electricity. You’ll find the basic answer on the
responsibilities of the Empire, Kingdoms, cities and on down
spelled out in TGW-639.
All the water and wastewater I’ve ever had/used was either government owned or a co-op that still has to do things up to government standards, and Texas is a PRIME example of what happens when you let a utility be run for profit with little or no regulation. I would LOVE to live in the Empire, but I also am a realist and know it could never work in the real world.
In today’s world basically every road between the Missouri River and the Rockies would be a dirt path with no possible travel most of the winter along with dial-up internet at best.
And no railroads or air travel, either. No telephone lines, no paved roads, not
even things like blue LEDs, ocean transport, shipping ports, or radio towers.
Because the Government built everything, right?
Wrong.
Where there’s a need, some enterprising individual or group of individuals will
step up and build it if enough people want it so that they can make a living at it.
Ah, a libertarian approach. I have a different opinion. Libertarian systems tend to build fast oligarchic upper crusts and a huge poverty part of society that would need a similar numbers of officers in law enforcement as a different type of state would need in beaurocrats. I am used to privatization leading to about the same money collected as government services, but bad service and after some years you get a nice postcard from the company owner from a country or island somewhere in warmer climate that has no extradition treaty for criminals. Many things that were once privatized needed to be nationalized again to maintain the necessary service. Once companies get to a certain size, they monopolize their branch and buy out anybody who gets over a certain size or make them an offer they cant reject. After few decades such corporates are worse than any government controlled service can be.
Aadam wants to go with.
Maybe, maybe later, since he knows they’re leaving now and he’s still going to the palace, and probably realizes he will have to deal with stabilizing things on Lamia for some time. I think right now he’s manning up and apologizing for the joke candy dig — which Loria was not offended by because she agreed with the sentiment behind it, and just maybe appreciated the compliment it contained (“appealing on the outside”).
I have to disagree on this. Private companies are always out to maximize their profits. And there’s loads and loads of infrastructure that does not immediately benefit them – so way should they be interested in it?
What sort of infrastructure? Water and wastewater are privately
owned, as is electricity. You’ll find the basic answer on the
responsibilities of the Empire, Kingdoms, cities and on down
spelled out in TGW-639.
All the water and wastewater I’ve ever had/used was either government owned or a co-op that still has to do things up to government standards, and Texas is a PRIME example of what happens when you let a utility be run for profit with little or no regulation. I would LOVE to live in the Empire, but I also am a realist and know it could never work in the real world.
In today’s world basically every road between the Missouri River and the Rockies would be a dirt path with no possible travel most of the winter along with dial-up internet at best.
And no railroads or air travel, either. No telephone lines, no paved roads, not
even things like blue LEDs, ocean transport, shipping ports, or radio towers.
Because the Government built everything, right?
Wrong.
Where there’s a need, some enterprising individual or group of individuals will
step up and build it if enough people want it so that they can make a living at it.
Ah, a libertarian approach. I have a different opinion. Libertarian systems tend to build fast oligarchic upper crusts and a huge poverty part of society that would need a similar numbers of officers in law enforcement as a different type of state would need in beaurocrats. I am used to privatization leading to about the same money collected as government services, but bad service and after some years you get a nice postcard from the company owner from a country or island somewhere in warmer climate that has no extradition treaty for criminals. Many things that were once privatized needed to be nationalized again to maintain the necessary service. Once companies get to a certain size, they monopolize their branch and buy out anybody who gets over a certain size or make them an offer they cant reject. After few decades such corporates are worse than any government controlled service can be.