I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by iraqmtpizza on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:21PM (#39609905)

They want it so much that they're unwilling to pay the actual cost of a ticket lol. They have to launder the money through an intermediary and offload the cost to people who don't use the train that everybody supposedly wants

Germany and France were on the verge of collapse or being conquered but government trains saved them? Do tell.

But also, they're maybe not very sovereign when a foreign body drafts, ratifies, and enforces their laws

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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by ethbr1 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:36PM (#39612377)

That's the way all government services work.

Public libraries don't run as profit centers, and yet everyone generally agrees they provide a social benefit and are worth funding.

Ref: world wars, part I and II.

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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by iraqmtpizza on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:31AM (#39613294)

If everyone generally agreed that injecting messenger RNA into the eyeballs of infants provided a social benefit you would go along with it.

So you're saying that if the Nazis didn't have subsidized train rides for tourists they would not have been able to collapse the Soviet Union in 1991 and regain East Germany? Interesting. Very interesting, sir.

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