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If you live in a city where a significant/most people don't pay for buses/streetcars, do the socialists tend to pay or not pay? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm mostly just curious, I will not change my paying habits regardless

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like a lot of the time it's more expensive to hire fare inspectors than the amount of potential recovered losses. However, most places still hire fare inspectors because the cruelty is the point.

Like, if a fare inspector is $100,000 per year, and fare is $3, that's a lot of fares to catch before it's worth it.

Saying that, I used to not pay a lot. Now I do, mostly because I can afford it. I didn't used to be able to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

that's a lot of fares to catch before it's worth it

you don't have to catch that much. if there's a bigger known risk, people will start paying too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The administrative apparatus is usually pretty expensive. Management, IT, payroll, training, HR etc