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Given that the MBTA is a money losing organization I'm not sure revenue maximization is necessarily the strategy that should be sought.
by tabeth 9y ago
Given that the MBTA is a money losing organization I'm not sure revenue maximization is necessarily the strategy that should be sought.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoIt's how you measure whether you're doing something useful.
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- dogecoinbase 9y agoNo, because then it's what's optimized for. It's like if you run a hospital "like a business" -- it becomes optimized for making money at the expense of patient care.
- briandear 9y agoHospitals ARE a business.
- Mz 9y agoThe majority of US hospitals are not for profit. https://bizfluent.com/profit-vs-non-profit-hospitals-9733.html https://bizfluent.com/profit-vs-non-profit-hospitals-9733.ht...
- SamReidHughes 9y agoIt's not like a hospital at all -- not that many hospitals couldn't benefit from being run better. The revenue of a train line is proportional to passengers served and forms a baseline for the total value the passengers received from the service. There's no problems with stuff like quality of passenger care.