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Reddit mentions of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Here are the top ones.
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| Height | 9.5 Inches |
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| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | April 2006 |
| Weight | 1.4991433816 Pounds |
| Width | 1.25 Inches |
Shipping container. It lowered the cost of shipping products around the world by about 98% as well as making theft of cargo much harder. It turned so much of industrial economics upside down by making it cheaper to ship a truckload of goods around the world than it would be to move that same truckload a few states.
One good book on the subject is The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.
They were probably referring to the wikipedia page on Employee Democracy which refers to the Employee Ownership Act of 1999.
> Every bit of evidence that exists (there isn't much) seems to show, for example, that workers' control increases efficiency...
It seems intuitive that workers would be more motivated to play a more active role in a company that they had a direct stake in, and such a company may very well be more efficient and streamlined as well, as well as having the ability to attract greater talent with higher wages and greater labor protections than their traditional counterparts. That's why I would definitely like to see them co-exist, as sort of a experiment or trial. I'm not sure that I would support trying to subsidize one type of business or another, but it's interesting that Ron Paul supported that bill, it surprised me too.
On a related note, there's an interesting book called The Box that tells the story of the shipping container. What an idiotic inefficient absurd idea, right? Everything gets shipped in the box: If you have box-shaped things, they go in the box. If you have motorcycle-shaped things, those go in the box too. It was obvious to everyone that it was a terribly inefficient idea, and yet accepting the inefficiency of standardization led to far greater efficiency. And history is rife with such examples of where people had educated guesses at best as to what would work best, and sometimes the counterintuitive option won out.
I honestly don't know whether traditional business models or worker-owned collectives would fare better. I'd like to see them both co-exist to give people options.