Little will have been gained if we trade a bloated prison system for sprawling forms of electronic surveillance that offload the costs of imprisonment onto offenders, their families and their communities.
"Long term, it's going to get harder for these guys to exist as they are currently constructed, with the exception of NBC because it can offload the costs on MSNBC," Michael Nathanson, an industry analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, said.
To keep prices down, he says, salmon farmers cut corners and offload the costs to the local environment.
By returning the no-longer-functional electronic to the manufacturer, you force that company to be responsible for the end-of-life disposal of the product instead of offloading the cost of recycling and disposal to taxpayers.
Offloading the cost of health benefits to the federal government would be a huge savings on the balance sheets of the Big Three and help make them competitive with Asian manufacturers.
If managers were seeking ever-more inventive ways of boosting share prices, paying themselves over the odds for doing so and offloading the costs on to society, they were just doing what business-school courses on strategy, transaction cost economics and agency theory had taught them.
Unlike Outbox, Zumbox (now "Digital Postal Mail powered by Zumbox") doesn't charge end users, instead offloading the costs to promotional mailers who partner with the service.
While all airlines will doubtless offload the extra cost onto their passengers, the budget carriers are more likely to increase service charges than ticket prices, to keep prices low and tempt more passengers aboard.
This will allow GM to offload the development cost of EV systems.
"We may see a reduction in price in the next couple of years, if operators in fact can offload the modem cost," says Richard Doherty, director at The Envisioneering Group, a New York-based technology consultancy.
