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Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

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Kepler said:
I heard the author of a book on intermodal shipping containers speaking on NPR. It sounds like the most boring thing on earth, but he made it incredibly interesting. He had a whole thing about the evolution of efficiency using a unit of measure they use in their biz which is something like the variance of actual shipping times per thousand mile-tons (i.e., one ton transported a thousand miles will miss its expected ship time within a margin of x). I don't remember the actual numbers but it was something like this: in the 18th century: 2 weeks, in the 19th century: 2 days, today: 2 minutes.
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I don't doubt that for 2 seconds. I think ultra-large-scale logistics is really interesting. In a weird way.
 
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Shippers have been in the absolute tank (no pun intended) as of late. I'm sure glad with the one shipping stock I own that I'm playing with house money, because it is just painful. At least the railroads aren't doing too badly, though.
 
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walrus said:
There is a severance package I can get on board with. Unreal they are going to give that POS 125 million
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Either it's part of the contract, or giving the sack is a heck of a lot more expensive than 125mil.
 
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How the rich stole the American revolution.

Everybody knows the Bolsheviks stole the Russian Revolution. This book follows in Charles Beards' footsteps and tries to trace the steps by which wealthy farmers and merchants hijacked the American Revolution and established an anti-democratic Constitutional state to protect the rich from redistribution. It's an idea as old as the Anti-Federalists, but it would be interesting to see the strength of the argument and evidence.
 
FlagDUDE08 said:
Most box stores are getting their butts whupped by the online stores. Perhaps these places should learn to act more as showrooms and push online retail...
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Because online retailers are the worst at packaging for shipping and have even worse customer service.
 
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