• Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    it’s a nicely written post and although I do believe the costs made to reduce the faire skippers is out of proportion I also believe you should mention another important fact.

    That is that the more money that is being put in to prevent it the lower the damage will be. A good example is tax evasion. The bigger the chance of getting caught is, the less people who will attempt it. Thus if you reduce the preventive measures this will automatically go up. But yea again I do not believe 150m weighs up to 100k.

    Actually I might’ve forgotten another factor. I believe and please do correct me if I’m wrong. Is that a lot of misbehaving people on the trains also skip the train fair. So it be 2 birds in one stone, safety and revenue.

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      9 months ago

      In society, those people are called capitalists.

      Capitalists want to take whatever is available and make it so that it is theirs. More for them, less for everyone else.

      They will take whatever the “market will bear” and hide behind caveat emptor when people cry foul.

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        9 months ago

        Ooh I ain’t arguing that mate. Just discussing economics. Providing free public transport is another discussion point that is interesting of course.

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      9 months ago

      Alienated take typical of 'muricans – you do know that there are other countries in the world, right? Loads of places have “free” turnslides that you can take if you can’t afford the fare, and yet not everyone goes through them.

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        9 months ago

        Lal mate, it’s that’s rather funny. No I am definitely not American. So if you could kindly get of your high horse and instead of throwing insults politely tell me about countries where these free turn slides are as i have yet to spot them in Europe and Asia.

        Your insults have no other objective than to make yourself feel better. Though I hope that in the future you will be kinder and focus on informing people of another way to go about this issue. I would’ve gladly heard that and probably agreed with your point.