Imagine all the grocery-stores in your area have decided to renovate at the same time, with each closing every check-out lane but one. How long would the lines be? Naturally, the market’s built-in protections of competition and the desire for profits prevent such a cruel inconvenience. But those safeguards go missing with government. And so we have the spectacle of three political “corporations” frustrating their “customers” with impunity. Amtrak, the nationalized railroad that “owns” the tracks over which New York City’s “MTA [Metropolitan Transit Authority] and New Jersey Transit” run their commuter trains each day, must “carry out major repairs … Continue reading Training the Serfs