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  1. Sep 2022
    1. banks are privately funded public infrastructure.

      Banks as privately-funded public infrastructure

      Earlier the author described banks as an institution that "touches most people, particularly in the middle class and above." This has me wondering about the testing program to have post offices in the U.S. offer banking functions for lower income people. That would be quasi-public infrastructure filling a gap in the privately funded offerings.

  2. Nov 2020
    1. This is sooo helpful. I just printed a label for media mail. USPS is pretty shady for not enabling other online shipping methods,