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Funny, I feel the opposite. $100/trip for a subway ride? Preposterous, and the economic system is somehow broken that such an income disparity exists. $10/tri
by AlisdairSH 13y ago
Funny, I feel the opposite.
$100/trip for a subway ride? Preposterous, and the economic system is somehow broken that such an income disparity exists.
$10/trip? Eh, if I cut out the Starbucks latte, I could do that. But, I really prefer flavor coffee to sumptuous subway seating.
I guess I'm really a socialist at heart.
- VLM 13y agoAs a thought experiment, assuming the transit system was a non-corrupt non-profit, a rich dude paying $100 for a ticket means a heck of a lot of poor people will continue to pay $2.25 today instead of having to pay $2.50. Or insert similar argument. Maybe instead it would mean some employee gets health insurance this month, etc. In the real world of course, corruption would eat all $100 and then the poor would be stuck paying $2.75 once budgets get used to $100 tickets from rich dudes.