Common, what you describe is the actual system. Last time I checked, it didn't look like that favorite image of yours. And U.S.P. vs private transport companies: there are legacy costs (e.g. pensions and healthcare of the retired) that the start-ups, being private, avoided in the first place. Face it: treating human beings humanely is more costly for a company than treating them as expendable material (of course if you look at it in the long run, it is more cost efficient for the society most of the time).

Some rare OT from me:

1. Ken, seriously consider seeking help. Even if that is just your internet persona, it will take a toll on your RL psyche if it has not already. Just try to take a break and then look at what you do here from a distance.

2. Please everybody just ignore every single one of Ken's accs. Just look at the above post and you have 4 of them.

3. Yturks, Dave, seriously consider banning (or suspending) Ken's Account (Membership being a different issue and i don't advocate anything there if you can separate the two). First, it will be for his own good, but secondly he also openly undermines the rating system with his sockpuppets and rarely if ever provides any substantial points and he is certainly not open to debate. If he feels he loses he changes the subject, gets inflammatory or stops responding and later declares victory because many posters simply get annoyed with him.

This will be all I'm going to post about that (oligoword posts excluded), Ken simply being no match for me anyway, so I win.