The Biggest Company You Never Heard Of



"but that doesn't mean they're bad with kids, they also control schools, and recently increased school capacity 20% by moving desks next to toilets"

brouhehe aside, this is what you should be paying attention to.

not some communist in public office pushing his socialist agenda.
not some terrorists wanting to build a mosque near ground zero without being able to pay for it.

this business model is, long term, one of the most brilliant ideas and greatest threats to personal liberty and open commerce ever conceived. it's also been going strong since roosevelt and is on track to replace "the state" within a generation or two, with the added bonus of internationality.

if you're moral, you'll take notice. if you're smart, you'll take notes.
if you're like me, you've already started building your own.
 
just in the nerdspace we have a similar company, Techtronics. Pretty much every consumer electronic device and computer part/tv can be broken down into a bunch of components 90% of which are made by Techtronics. It's scary.
 
yea... the UK, Australia, etc are fucked. who in the USA cares about this stuff except whiny, fear-mongering conservatives who will never regain power in the forseeable future. they are the ones who enabled companies like Serco to exist.
 
who in the USA cares about this stuff except whiny, fear-mongering conservatives who will never regain power in the forseeable future. they are the ones who enabled companies like Serco to exist.

LOL - the conservative-hate gets stronger as we come closer to November.
We must be doing something right!
 
"but that doesn't mean they're bad with kids, they also control schools, and recently increased school capacity 20% by moving desks next to toilets"

Was that a joke I'm not getting? :\ That's not what was said.

yea... the UK, Australia, etc are fucked. who in the USA cares about this stuff except whiny, fear-mongering conservatives who will never regain power in the forseeable future. they are the ones who enabled companies like Serco to exist.
Lol.
 
Was that a joke I'm not getting?

the real joke is what was actually said -- a 14 year old hangs himself following abuse in custody, but they're good with kids because they also run all the state schools in bradford.

it's a meaningless qualifier. at a glance it conveys the idea that they're qualified to handle kids in custody because they handle kids out of custody. this same logic can convey the idea that hedge fund managers are qualified to handle your money because they handle other people's money -- nevermind that the managers work for goldman sachs.

but yes, the brouhuhaho was a jab at the idea that a company -- by design and necessity being as efficient as possible -- that operates both prisons and schools will operate schools as prisons. which can lead into a whole 'nother level of jokedness because schools are essentially minimum-to-medium security prisons now.
 
The scariest part about this is that it is all enabled the the presence of a government. This would VERY RARELY occur in a free market economy.
 
I think that's the company that is buying up all the toll roads in the US.