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- From: smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Is car pooling for real? (was Re: Are bikes really less polluting?)
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:48:18 GMT
- References: <1992Jul10.134138.10575@ke4zv.uucp> <JMC.92Jul15072706@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <JMC.92Jul15170600@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>,<1992Jul20.163426.25940@kth.se> <1992Jul22.025219.25999@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Jul22.115848.26815@kth.se>
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- In article <1992Jul22.115848.26815@kth.se>, tpalm@nada.kth.se (Thomas Palm) writes:
- >By having differentiated fees (as you suggest for roads in another posting) we
- >may encourage staggered schedules.
-
- And one real good way to do this with minimal impact on personal liberty and
- with maximum enforcement would be to make all the employers in the area *bid*
- on shift times. Company X might bid $1,000,000 for 1000 employees 9 to 5 and
- 3000 employees 10 to 6 or 8 to 4. Company Y might bid $10,000 for 100 emp-
- loyees for 10 to 6, and so forth - any combination. The company can re-bid
- quarterly or at six or 12 month intervals, and cannot hire over the bid limit.
- It can assign any employee to any shift slot it wins up to the limit, so groups
- that work together can stay together. Enforcement is now at the level of the
- company, of which there are many fewer than there are employees, and no
- traffic-flow-damaging toll booths are needed, no bar codes on cars, with all
- the concommittent damage to personal liberty, etc. Simple, straightforward,
- profitable, and the scheme respects personal rights. I'm sure someone will
- flame me for it.
-
- Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com) No, I don't speak for Cabletron.
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- Daily I'd go over to Congress - that grand old benevolent national asylum - and
- report on the inmates there. Never seen a body of men with tongues more handy,
- or information more uncertain. If one of those men had been present when the
- Deity was on the point of saying "Let there be light" we never would've had it.
-