• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    It’s a shared taxi/marshrutka/dollar van/jitney … Too many names but common across the world especially where the government is incapable of organizing proper public transport.

    Just repackaged for techbros.

    • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Exactly this. Interestingly, while in “those” places the government is incapable of organizing public transit, in US, the government chooses not to. It’s like learned helplessness at the society level.