Ideally, this requirement would apply to all services with a public frontend, not merely to government services or whatever the proper term for the middle ground Amtrak occupies is.
But yes you are correct, this occurred to me earlier that someone might point this out. From my perspective these classifications are increasingly dubious anyway, given the glut of corporate welfare and the increasing confluence of the public and private. More of the economy should be more accurately seen as a public/private partnership across the board. I'm not sure picking out where exactly Amtrak falls in that minutia is the salient point.
The point is the government should use its higher leverage over Amtrak to enforce/test such a policy, on the theory its success and wider adoption would be a public benefit.
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Yes fair enough but it's close enough.
Ideally, this requirement would apply to all services with a public frontend, not merely to government services or whatever the proper term for the middle ground Amtrak occupies is.
But yes you are correct, this occurred to me earlier that someone might point this out. From my perspective these classifications are increasingly dubious anyway, given the glut of corporate welfare and the increasing confluence of the public and private. More of the economy should be more accurately seen as a public/private partnership across the board. I'm not sure picking out where exactly Amtrak falls in that minutia is the salient point.
The point is the government should use its higher leverage over Amtrak to enforce/test such a policy, on the theory its success and wider adoption would be a public benefit.