RE: Should public transportation be free?
May 30, 2022 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2022 at 11:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Just as people mention with respect to…say….communism, we might want to actually try free market capitalism before we declare with any certainty what it inexorably leads to.
It’s not free market capitalism that lead to the current situation with respect to fossil fuels, public transportation…or…the price of insulin. As examples. I don’t personally think that the free market can solve our current problems- but that might have something to do with tying bags of sand to our ankles for generations. Public transportation (if any kind) in the us is likely to be wildly inefficient simply because we designed our cities with the assumption of universal private automobile ownership- another example. Think of the headaches involved in Europe with respect to widening roads designed for horses and buggy.
It’s not free market capitalism that lead to the current situation with respect to fossil fuels, public transportation…or…the price of insulin. As examples. I don’t personally think that the free market can solve our current problems- but that might have something to do with tying bags of sand to our ankles for generations. Public transportation (if any kind) in the us is likely to be wildly inefficient simply because we designed our cities with the assumption of universal private automobile ownership- another example. Think of the headaches involved in Europe with respect to widening roads designed for horses and buggy.
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