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> If you just make the buses free, people may take more roundabout trips to get to where they need to go, just to be able to make use of the free bus What?!
by lawnchair_larry 13y ago
> If you just make the buses free, people may take more roundabout trips to get to where they need to go, just to be able to make use of the free bus
What?!
- derleth 13y agoIt's like Free Healthcare: Unless it's expensive, people will be out there breaking bones and getting diseases for the sheer hell of it, and not caring about the consequences because it's free! It's in Mises somewhere. Cato Institute said it. Or... something.
- jff 13y agoWould it surprise you that a person might take a 30-minute bus ride to avoid a 15-minute walk? Wouldn't surprise me.