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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by Tinyyy on Thursday December 07, 2017 @08:17AM (#15869707)
But the rules remain the same for everyone: if you want to use the road and don’t want to carpool, you pay.
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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by grasshopperpurp on Thursday December 07, 2017 @08:46AM (#15869890)
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)

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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by Tinyyy on Thursday December 07, 2017 @02:42PM (#15873311)
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.
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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology by grasshopperpurp on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:12AM (#15878690)
Public goods.

And, yes, most rules are unfair to poor people. Who do you think makes the rules?

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