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We should simply make those who support things be personally financially liable for the costs and waste. It’s easy to be flippant about waste when it’s other pe
by frankfrankfrank 4y ago
We should simply make those who support things be personally financially liable for the costs and waste. It’s easy to be flippant about waste when it’s other people’s money you’re wasting.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoWillingness to play fast and loose with other people's money in all contexts is a big problem for western society right now. You see it in both public and private sector.
- supportlocal4h 4y ago"Western" meaning west of where the sun rises?
- msla 4y agoThat sounds like a free rider problem: No, I don't "support" the bike paths, so I don't pay for their upkeep, but I live in a better city for their existence, even if I don't even own a bike. Similarly, I don't "support" the hospitals, right up until I get cancer and spend over a month in-patient receiving some very expensive therapies.
- frankfrankfrank 4y agoIt’s pretty rich for someone to talk of a freeloading problem while advocating for bike lanes that are utilized by only very few, while paid for by everyone else, whether they will ever set foot on the bike path or not. And I say that as a cyclist, but one that can see past the self-serving rationalization and manipulative nature of the freeloader argument. And that doesn’t even address the deeply authoritarian and evil core of the argument of “well, I determine what’s best for you so I will force it on you against your will for your own good, because what I want/enjoy conveniently coincides with what is best for you”. It’s tyranny and a purely evil mindset.