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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 805634" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>That idea does provide some food for thought and in the case of some companies, they could pool resources and build roads to their liking and then charge the general public to use excess capacity if such existed. The present model to be blunt is a type of socialist model if you will in that some taxpayers in "way out in the middle of nowhere" America are paying for roads and thus subsidizing local business profits and consumer prices while they themselves don't realize the same benefit. I use the term socialist not for any hyperbolic effect but in that we should realize what we call a free market, capitalist system in America has a socialist overlay and effect to it and we should admit this. There is something to be said for mutual benefit in society but are we using proper distribution proportions that turn out to deprive one at the benefit of another? How do we or even can we raise all ships at once?</p><p> </p><p>Of late I've been reading a book from 1927' entitled "The Transportation Age" by Dr. Ralph Borsodi, a noted agranian theorist who discusses the changes in marketing and product distribution has a cost factor on said products that over time only go up while the cost basis of the product itself from raw material and production actually go down. As UPSers, this is not a friendly book at all and one might say I'm reading the Codex Gigas from a UPS/FedEx POV but I find the book fascinating from my vantage of looking back while considering Borsodi's points of looking forward and projecting an outcome of what will happen. All in the mix is transportation and much of it's costs being socialized onto the taxpayer. How much would WorldPort cost if the good people of Louisville decided an airport should be built exclusively by free market actions? How much does that NDA shipping rate cost now? I warned you it would sting a bit and I've yelled ouch numerous times while reading it. Wanna see a socialist? Got a mirror? Kirkpatrick Sale in his work "Human Scale" makes a good case that socialization of private business costs across the board on an annual basis exceeds the total of all corp. profits in America. Now that's a big number!</p><p> </p><p>Your idea might indeed not cure but could vastly limit this socialization of costs being placed on taxpayers. Someone I know from corp. several years ago drafted a white paper on why UPS should buy a railroad and obviously that didn't happen and for the record I know of no plan to buy or not to buy a railroad so there you go but this person and I did discuss this idea and how it works and the various benefits. I learned a lot not only about transportation networks but also the other means by which railroads make money. Those Cho-Choo's going up and down the tracks are really small potatoes in the revenue stream and company owned roadways could just as easily provide the same income footprint. It's all there if you just "look at the tracks!"</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 805634, member: 2189"] That idea does provide some food for thought and in the case of some companies, they could pool resources and build roads to their liking and then charge the general public to use excess capacity if such existed. The present model to be blunt is a type of socialist model if you will in that some taxpayers in "way out in the middle of nowhere" America are paying for roads and thus subsidizing local business profits and consumer prices while they themselves don't realize the same benefit. I use the term socialist not for any hyperbolic effect but in that we should realize what we call a free market, capitalist system in America has a socialist overlay and effect to it and we should admit this. There is something to be said for mutual benefit in society but are we using proper distribution proportions that turn out to deprive one at the benefit of another? How do we or even can we raise all ships at once? Of late I've been reading a book from 1927' entitled "The Transportation Age" by Dr. Ralph Borsodi, a noted agranian theorist who discusses the changes in marketing and product distribution has a cost factor on said products that over time only go up while the cost basis of the product itself from raw material and production actually go down. As UPSers, this is not a friendly book at all and one might say I'm reading the Codex Gigas from a UPS/FedEx POV but I find the book fascinating from my vantage of looking back while considering Borsodi's points of looking forward and projecting an outcome of what will happen. All in the mix is transportation and much of it's costs being socialized onto the taxpayer. How much would WorldPort cost if the good people of Louisville decided an airport should be built exclusively by free market actions? How much does that NDA shipping rate cost now? I warned you it would sting a bit and I've yelled ouch numerous times while reading it. Wanna see a socialist? Got a mirror? Kirkpatrick Sale in his work "Human Scale" makes a good case that socialization of private business costs across the board on an annual basis exceeds the total of all corp. profits in America. Now that's a big number! Your idea might indeed not cure but could vastly limit this socialization of costs being placed on taxpayers. Someone I know from corp. several years ago drafted a white paper on why UPS should buy a railroad and obviously that didn't happen and for the record I know of no plan to buy or not to buy a railroad so there you go but this person and I did discuss this idea and how it works and the various benefits. I learned a lot not only about transportation networks but also the other means by which railroads make money. Those Cho-Choo's going up and down the tracks are really small potatoes in the revenue stream and company owned roadways could just as easily provide the same income footprint. It's all there if you just "look at the tracks!" :wink2: [/QUOTE]
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