2022-02-22
The Biden Infrastructure Bill (or the "Build Back Better" Bill) looks like another bill that the people will have to meet, either through increased taxes or inflation.
And of course this will mean government contracts to big business - the bigger the better in order to keep the thing manageable - and to ensure that taxpayer's money goes to the correct recipients.
" 'This is going to be huge' Andres Carvallo, CEO and co-founder of smart-grids and smart-cities consulting firm CMG Consulting"
Will all this be in the public interest? You bet - although the answer may depend upon whom you ask. As always, the journalists will ask the right people the right questions.
So is this yet another transfer of wealth (not to mention control) from the people to the oligarchs who run the "private sector" (a sector so private that nobody seems to be quite sure who the ultimate owners are)? Unless you have an occasional lifetime to spare, tracing beneficial ownership through the labyrinths of corporate records is not really feasible for the man on the New York subway (or Clapham omnibus).
Or will the people now benefit from filled potholes, working infrastructure and proper service from adequately funded health systems sewage treatment plants and efficient transportation links?
“We have an opportunity to build better, but doing that means you have to go into those communities. You need to have co-design workshops, user-centered design. You need to get your hands dirty, and you have to ask the hard questions”
Are the omens propitious?
Technocracy News brings us the glad tidings.
