“The University of North Carolina system…has roughly 10% of its endowment tied up in SpaceX”
With moar castle, could be Irish, Scottish, or Welsh.
Transit experts:
How would you go about getting a sense of what a given agency would do if it had more money? (either more funding or operational savings)
An economist would look at previous cases for revealed preference. But sample size is low and circumstances idiosyncratic, so not ideal.
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You could look at transit agency budget documents or capital plans. These are sometimes described as the optimistic budget scenario or growth plans. They flag additional service etc.
How much do you trust representations in these documents when *not* accompanied by hard requests for funding? 2/2
Other countries institutionalize ergonomics for in-office work—eg, in the UK they help you set up your desk/chair/monitor as part of "health and safety"—but I'm not sure what happens in WFH. More important in the US given comparatively high levels of WFH, size of homes, nature of the consumer, etc.
Feels like we're overdue for a consumer ergonomics revolution in the US. Eventually you realize a $150 rolling chair doesn't cut it for routine WFH, but there isn't much marketing around upgrading.