Not for a lack of trying, but nothing small scale works well.
SlopppyEngineer
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and drive trucks for work.
Over here (in Europe) they just changed that. Reduced tariff is only for trucks registered to a company. Private persons pay full. It cut back on truck sales drastically.
I work with people in three different time zones. There is always someone having a flower festival, religious day or national holiday. Nobody gets offended for forgetting a holiday or if they did they don't last long.
Taxes are gone.
Everybody: yay!
Police: protection money and speed traps it is
Everybody: oh no!
Now you have to convince millions of people to give you funding
There are examples of people doing this. Cooperatives can be owned by the workers or by the customers. They're usually cheaper too.
They don't have the "move fast and break things" mentality however because by nature they don't have a billionaire sponsors, so it's harder to complete in a venture capitalist world. It's when big money dries up, like the great depression, when you'll see them popping up.
The heat index — a combination of temperature and humidity — hit 58.5 degrees Celsius (137 Fahrenheit) Tuesday morning in Rio, the highest index ever recorded there. Actual temperatures dropped slightly on Wednesday, but were forecast to rise again to 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) on Thursday.
Yeah, that's Celsius.
Maybe it’s just a volume thing
Yes. Once a certain volume and popularity has been reached Eternal September happens and mainstream users flood in carrying alot of opinions, followed by companies who want to advertise to those new users.
How that works in a federated system is going to be interesting. There is no central site or node. Maybe there will be a separate commercial federation network.
"The riskier the road, the greater the profit." ~Rules of Acquisition #62
Because I use the only one that I can remember.
It's why the EU voted in regulations today against single use packaging despite howls of protest from the fast food industry.
Small cars, small profits.