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Impoverished people don't have any other choice. It's part of how it's easy to stay poor. There was a while when all I had was a bicycle. When my bike got st
by roguecoder 14y ago
Impoverished people don't have any other choice.
It's part of how it's easy to stay poor. There was a while when all I had was a bicycle. When my bike got stolen I didn't have the money for another one, but over the next three months spent more than a bike would have cost on unavoidable and otherwise-impossible transportation. Mostly I walked (including three miles to work each day), but sometimes the cost of the cab was less than the money I'd loose by not being somewhere.
- Klinky 14y agoI was poor growing up. Rarely did we take a cab. We were lucky to have a decent bus system that was $0.50 and would take you all around the small town we lived. The fact is that we were so poor there is no way we could have paid the taxi fare & taxis don't take food stamps. I do understand that public transit is not available for everyone, but for people who are impoverished, often the $10 - $20 for a cab ride isn't available either. Honestly the inclusion of him helping the impoverished and old ladies just seems to be him buttering up his image for the story.
- afterburner 14y agoClearly in a small town with good bus service, a taxi would rarely be needed for things you need a car for. But there are plenty of large towns and cities that have terrible bus service.
- Klinky 14y agoI would still find it unlikely that a poor person could keep a regular taxicab habit going unless they were bailing on fares.