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I'd vote whoever promised to replace the modern fleets of buses with Mercedes 1114s
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@rarity @awl Drivers would compete with eachother on who had the prettiest bus, and these drawings were commonplace http://www.revistacolectibondi.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/filetetapa-750x499.jpg
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@rarity Basically. It's called "fileteado" and hilariously enough it was outlawed due to corporate interests (keeping all buses in a line the same so they were easier to identify and also cheaper to paint) in the same year that the art was declared to be cultural heritage of the country.
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@maiyannah Yeah right? What times. Funnily enough my grandfather was a bus driver in the era that buses were expanding to become the main public means of transport, and owned two buses by the time he retired.
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@maiyannah IMO a big part of the decline of the transport industry is that it shifted from being mostly based on cooperatives (many drivers would own their own buses and thus be shareholders) to a corporation-based system that tries it's best to own the entire machinery of the line, and hire drivers solely to drive, being assigned to a different car each time rather than having one that's their own. As employees, people are much less likely to do their best than as shareholders.
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@nerthos Yes and no. There's positive corporate cultures where employees end up just as invested if not more, but corporate cultures in general seem to be a detriment to this kind of loyalty and performance since the people involved in steering those cultures are often incentivised for dehumanising or at the very least disregarding employees.
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@maiyannah In here it's a problem on both sides, the employers who don't care about the employee past getting the job done, and the employee who doesn't care about the employer past getting the paycheck.
