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Great stuff, no doubt. But he’s missing an opportunity here. How about some good old fashioned competition for the public tram? I mean real competition, not skateboarding on rails. Why not screw on a couple of seats, and then start charging less money than public transportation? Hire some bums to push the things along. All the track you need is already laid out for you by taxpayers. I bet you could get some sweet, sweet venture capital money and run at a loss for years while still making yourself rich.

You’ll need a neato name for your pallet transit company, though. A catchy name, a fly website, and little else is essential in today’s economy. What would be a great name for a transportation company that leeches off of public infrastructure, ignores all employment and safety laws, and takes investor money to avoid having to turn a profit indefinitely while still enriching investors? He should call it Uber.

Never mind the do-it-yourself vasectomy angle. I’d like to point out what’s really interesting about this video. Stay with me, here, I’m going to be talking ancient history. You know, stuff from way back when, in the murky past before even Facebook was a thing. I’m talking old, man. Anyway, people, at one time, used to dig big holes in the ground, line the hole with concrete, fill them with water, and then occasionally swim in them.  No, really, I’m not making this stuff up. People actually did that.

You know, I occasionally try to tell young whippersnappers that swimming pools weren’t always just for skateboarding, but they don’t believe me. They think I’m even crazier when I tell them that people used to talk directly into their cellphones, and even receive phone calls, instead of typing little messages and looking at other people’s meals on them.

(Thanks to old friend Charles Schneider for sending that one along)

Why do people climb Everest? The original answer to that question was, “Because it’s there.” True enough at the time. But so many people have climbed it at this point that they’ve worn steps all the way up it. There’s a Starbucks at the top. If you ask me, it’s not really “there” anymore. Legions of people in spangled Gore-Tex have worn the “there” right out of it.

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