{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "We had a person faint on the subway today and you could see every single person in the train car going:\n \u201cWell, if we don\u2019t stop...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/174210514053/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://poipoipoi-2016.tumblr.com/post/174210357447/we-had-a-person-faint-on-the-subway-today-and-you\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">poipoipoi-2016</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>We had a person faint on the subway today and you could see every single person in the train car going:</p>\n<p>\u201cWell, if we don\u2019t stop the train, she might die.\u00a0 But if we stop the train, we\u2019re going to be an hour late to work.\u00a0 Don\u2019t stop the train it is!\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>this is a really good example of how public budgets, technical debt, time, civic sensibility, etc. are tradeable against each other (&amp; all fungible with money) so that the flow of history is experienced as broad eras of decline and uplift<br/></p>"}