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In North America we consider such tragedies acts of God, but Brazil, to its credit, lays the blame on road operators, who can be sued for damages. This struck me as not only a legal innovation but a philosophical one, a redirection of culpability from driver to engineer.
Managers are therefore free to pursue economization within broadly defined limits. If their decisions require that large numbers of workers in a particular town lose their jobs—because the pencil factory is being moved to a place with lower labor costs, for instance—then that is a decision the manager can make without answering to the townspeople. For the market to function, therefore, decision-making power must be concentrated in relatively few hands.
How to Make a Pencil
logicmag.io
When the Chicago City Council signed off on the meter deal, they didn’t just trade away parking revenue. They traded away Chicago’s streets themselves. They lost control over rates but also control over the curbs—how they could be used, and by whom.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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