Less familiar with the general society and how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Okay. A warm welcome and of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the peopleof the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and education programs. They include our lecture series which tonights lecture is part of, our general Society Library which will will be celebrating 200 years. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john and mossman lot collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blue and white postcard on your seats. We have such a wonderful start to this years lectures season and we have the pleasure of welcoming critically acclaimed biographer susan ronald who will discuss her biography of conde nast, the publishing legend of vogue and vanity fair and other
Doing bad stuff they simply say oh were going to go bankrupt and as a result youve got these enormous wildfires burning youve got the economy in danger youve got peoples lives in danger because as private corporations they know how to game the system in a way to absolve them from any responsibility and to not pay for what are called in economics the externalities of their Business Model it so the should not be in private hands transportation should not be in private hands education and medical Health Services should not be in private hands for this reason because youve got gouging and monopolization in the private sector its not appropriate for these basic core utilities of the economy our Corporate Structure today is one of private equity it extracts that equity and it leaves a carcass of debt that is indeed what you see here but the other thing you see especially in california is the woak progressives. Have basically enable the tax regime whereby they always win so in california the
Economics the externalities of their Business Model it till the should not be in private hands transportation should not be in private hands education and medical Health Services should not be in private hands for this reason because youve got gouging and monopolization in the private sector its not appropriate for these basic core utilities of the economy our Corporate Structure today is one of private equity it extracts that equity and it leaves a carcass of debt that is indeed what you see here but the other thing you see especially in california is the woak progressives have basically enabled a tax regime whereby they always win so in california the property taxes for those who have ben there you know for the past 1020 years are extremely low and theyre not theyve passed laws long ago where they youre not allowed to raise taxes so the cost of maintaining the infrastructure. In regard to the utilities they dont have enough taxes anyway to cover the maintenance on it and so it is the
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A utility electricity and whenever they get in trouble they use declare bankruptcy so its an asymmetric warfare going on they extract wealth and when they get caught doing bad stuff they simply say oh were going to go bankrupt and as a result youve got these enormous wildfires burning youve got the economy in danger youve got peoples lives in danger because as private corporations they know how to game the system in a way to absolve them from any responsibility and to not pay for what are called in economics the externalities of their Business Model it so the should not be in private hands transportation should not be in private hands education and medical Health Services should not be in private hands for this reason because youve got gouging and monopolization in the private sector its not appropriate for these basic or utility. As of the economy our Corporate Structure today is one of private equity it extracts that equity and it leaves a carcass of debt that is indeed what you see