Re: Train Strike - next week
Outside of war footings states are appallingly bad at doing anything new.
I would counter that things such as universal education, universal healthcare (in the civilised world anyway), employee rights, consumer protection legislation, public water supply and sewerage and probably quite a lot of other "stuff" simply wouldn't have happened in a purely capitalist society. Now you could argue that some of these things aren't necessarily "innovative", but in a broad sense they are definitely more socialist than capitalist and while some early pioneers in the fields weren't "the state", they weren't "the corporation" either, instead being philanthropists, co-operatives, etc.
M.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
