Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by Tinyyy on Thursday December 07, 2017 @08:17AM
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But the rules remain the same for everyone: if you want to use the road and don’t want to carpool, you pay.
Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by grasshopperpurp on Thursday December 07, 2017 @08:46AM
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If you make $550 per day, $40 is 7% of your daily income; if you make $82 per day, it's 49%. That's not the same for everyone. Of course, there are people who make well more than $550 per day and people who make significantly less than $82 per day.
($200,000/365=$550; $30,000/365=$82)
Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by Tinyyy on Thursday December 07, 2017 @02:42PM
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By that logic, almost every single rule in this world is 'unfair' towards the poor, because of course things cost disproportionately more for the poor.
Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by grasshopperpurp on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:12AM
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Public goods.
And, yes, most rules are unfair to poor people. Who do you think makes the rules?
This is not the same as with roads though, since they are a finite resource (whereas, arguably, electricity can be seen as infinite in this case). You can't ask people to pay for roads which they then can't use because they can't afford the tolls for it. It's already bad enough that so much tax money flows into building roads, which can only be utilized by people wealthy enough to own and maintain a car in the first place. (I'm reading the book "Happy City" at the moment, so this topic struck a chord with me)