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[–] 80 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Socialized system vs capitalized system: The capitalist comes in and uses their venture capital to undercut the socialized system so that people stop using it. Once the socialized system loses interest and funding or are otherwise out of the picture, they they jack their prices up way higher than the original and because they're the only game in town, they get to keep those record profits in effective perpetuity.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is just about efficiency. Postal (including UPS / FedEx) can plan the route ahead, stack parcels with as little space as possible, and deliver hundreds of packages in a day. UberEats doesn't know when will order show up, doesnt know when will order be ready, it can deliver maybe 2 - 3 orders in a row, the route planning is just in time.

    Tell me how is this only explainable by socialized system.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't recall any socialized courier or food delivery services.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Republicans helped the couriers prevent USPS from competing. The 2006 law they passed mandated that USPS had to pre-cover healthcare and retirements for the next 75 years, which no other organization does, and has put USPS in financial trouble.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Could you imagine? Food delivery apps nationalized then delivered through the USPS?

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you trying to imply UPS/FedEx is a socialized system?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Average american. Don't you know? Capitalism is when good and when not good, that's communism socialism.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Socialism is when the workers own the means of production, not when the government does stuff.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Socialism is when the government does stuff and the more it does the more socialist it is, and if you do enough of it, that's communism.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Boy, in this thread I really can't tell where the sarcasm ended and the bad faith began.

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