Some cities are finding ways to make the construction of flood defenses profitable in itself.

I don't see anything wrong with doing this. At the same time, we must reject the idea that every flood defense must be profitable to construct. That would lead to bowing down to business and letting it extract too much from the public. To get a good deal with businesses you must always be ready to say "no deal".

The best flood defenses will work only for a few decades. Beyond that, we need to stop increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in the air, then massively remove them from the atmosphere.

WeWork aimed to dominate the market by running at a loss and underselling its competitors. Then it tried to go public for an inflated stock price, and fell flat on its face.

The strategy of trying to dominate the world by running at a loss is what Uber is doing. It is predatory, and we should not leave its failure to chance. We should make it a crime and prosecute the executives who do it.

Short Story: War Drone.

Experiments with particularly small and cheap apartments might offer a way to reduce homelessness.

However, in order to do that, they need to be made in large quantities.

Over 1 Million Chileans Take to the Streets to Demand Political Reforms, Change to Country's Neoliberal Economic System.

Chilean thugs are attacking protesters, sometimes with bullets or something like round shot, sometimes with rubber-coated bullets in the eye to blind them. They shoot at witnesses, too.

Doctors say it is hard for them to treat the hundreds of casualties. The underfunded public hospital is short of all sorts of supplies. This reflects the right-wing policies that the protests oppose.