Ferguson and the Modern Debtor's Prison: https://hubski.com/pub?id=173699 We knew all of this already. That phrase - "modern debtor's prison" - has really stuck with me, because it perfectly describes what's happening. The poor get trapped in what amounts to a zip code-wide debtor's prison. If there's one technological advance I really hope for, it's ubiquitous cheap transportation, so that lack of economic mobility can be a thing of the past.Paraphrasing: This study is not just about bias. It is saying that the police officers are picking on the poor people who are going to be outside more, who are going to be more easy to pick on, and so on, and pushing them further into poverty and debt in order to fund their police department and get the city more money.
I have been keeping an eye on The Detroit Bus Company for a while; they seem like a cool group. They will be suspending a free service to get kids to after-school programs at the end of the month if a fundraising campaign falls short.If there's one technological advance I really hope for, it's ubiquitous cheap transportation, so that lack of economic mobility can be a thing of the past.
There's an invention called a bus, and on this invention they provide cheap transportation.So to recap: If you provide transportation services just for your own employees, people will say that you’re elitist, that you’re ‘letting’ the public systems crumble because you’ve got your own, and there’ll be protests wherever your buses stop. If you provide transportation services to everyone and thumb your nose at the regulators, they’ll say you’re a threat to consumers and should be shut down. If you try to provide transportation services to everyone while following the rules, you will get fuck-all done. --Mike Blume on Night School Failed Because It Followed Laws
Yes. I think the real(er) problem is that there's more to mobility than the 'economic' side of it. Social, psychological, etc. But most national buses aren't that cheap. EDIT: and I want to make it clear to anyone who reads through that entire Slate Star Codex post that, no, the elves of Mirkwood don't have a fucking thing to do with moose. That's a Peter Jackson Invention TM. I wonder if there's a profession in the insanity I demonstrate in actually caring about any of this. Luckily, my thirty seconds was salvaged when I stumbled upon this illuminatory post -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Moose.