• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Kids don’t have jobs and people don’t choose to get sick. People do choose to ride trains. Do you just think nobody should ever pay for anything? Haven’t we seen enough times how that works in practice?

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      2 months ago

      Nobody chooses to ride trains except old steam trains, stuff like the Orient Express

      99% of people use trains because they need them, usually to get to work.

      You’d be about as effective an economist as Liz The Lettuce

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        2 months ago

        People absolutely do choose trains over cars, when the train is actually viable. Just because that isn’t a thing in the UK doesn’t mean it couldn’t be.

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        2 months ago

        Trains are not the only way to travel. Your definition of ‘need’ is so broad as to encompass most of the economy. Organizing society on the basis of that kind of thinking has been tried and the results are invariably disastrous.

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          2 months ago

          Calm doon Liz, western Europe organises society just like that, and there’s no need for you to gargle a billionaire’s todger about it

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          Nothing to see here folks. Just another brainwashed capitalist-dick-sucking class-traitor. He can go to the wall with the rest of them.

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        2 months ago

        I did read the article, I think the fine was too harsh for an honest mistake. But I wasn’t responding to the article, I was responding to someone celebrating the railways losing money because of people not paying their fares.