They should get basic income too, good idea

You’re welcome to enjoy the slop, doesn’t change what it is

Not sure how to deal with this kind of wildly unbalanced risk assessment

Give a summary of your thoughts on the linked page

Why does this make you think of park tools?

Do you know that the government has set those targets?

And the dutch aren’t very well known for their imperial mentality?

The Dutch were ridiculously bad at imposing their language on other countries. Little trace of it remains in Indonesia, or New York. Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten have never taken to it. South Africa is kind of the exception except even then Afrikaans has played second fiddle to English for 150 years, and they have sought to differentiate their language from Dutch in more recent times.

Portugal has been better at that game when you consider its size.

What do you find strange about it?

I believe general wisdom in the US is that trains are best when run by the government at zero cost. This is presumably the best way to get transit. So the idea that competition would improve things is odd.

Europe is a big place

Was that the situation?