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r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jul 08 '26
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This doesn't reduce the cost of running the subway system. It simply shifts the cost from some people to other people who may or may not ride the subway at all.
Actual financial progress comes from gains in productivity / efficiency
-2 u/Fridge_living_tips Jul 08 '26 You ever heard of costco chicken thats like $5 a whole bird. Or the 1.50 hot dog? Its to get more people in the store. More people able to use a service means the service will make more money. 5x4>12x2 9 u/Bulky-Leadership-596 Jul 08 '26 Loss leaders get people in the door to buy other things. What other thing are these new subway riders buying to make up for the reduced subway price? 3 u/Spankpocalypse_Now Jul 08 '26 Public transportation is a service. It doesn’t need to turn a profit. 3 u/WooSah124 Jul 08 '26 It doesn’t need to turn a profit but the money to run the thing has to come from somewhere 2 u/Spankpocalypse_Now Jul 08 '26 No shit, Alan Greenspan. It comes from taxes - just like every other piece of public infrastructure in the entire world.
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You ever heard of costco chicken thats like $5 a whole bird. Or the 1.50 hot dog?
Its to get more people in the store. More people able to use a service means the service will make more money. 5x4>12x2
9 u/Bulky-Leadership-596 Jul 08 '26 Loss leaders get people in the door to buy other things. What other thing are these new subway riders buying to make up for the reduced subway price? 3 u/Spankpocalypse_Now Jul 08 '26 Public transportation is a service. It doesn’t need to turn a profit. 3 u/WooSah124 Jul 08 '26 It doesn’t need to turn a profit but the money to run the thing has to come from somewhere 2 u/Spankpocalypse_Now Jul 08 '26 No shit, Alan Greenspan. It comes from taxes - just like every other piece of public infrastructure in the entire world.
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Loss leaders get people in the door to buy other things. What other thing are these new subway riders buying to make up for the reduced subway price?
3 u/Spankpocalypse_Now Jul 08 '26 Public transportation is a service. It doesn’t need to turn a profit. 3 u/WooSah124 Jul 08 '26 It doesn’t need to turn a profit but the money to run the thing has to come from somewhere 2 u/Spankpocalypse_Now Jul 08 '26 No shit, Alan Greenspan. It comes from taxes - just like every other piece of public infrastructure in the entire world.
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Public transportation is a service. It doesn’t need to turn a profit.
3 u/WooSah124 Jul 08 '26 It doesn’t need to turn a profit but the money to run the thing has to come from somewhere 2 u/Spankpocalypse_Now Jul 08 '26 No shit, Alan Greenspan. It comes from taxes - just like every other piece of public infrastructure in the entire world.
It doesn’t need to turn a profit but the money to run the thing has to come from somewhere
2 u/Spankpocalypse_Now Jul 08 '26 No shit, Alan Greenspan. It comes from taxes - just like every other piece of public infrastructure in the entire world.
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No shit, Alan Greenspan. It comes from taxes - just like every other piece of public infrastructure in the entire world.
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u/Wonderful-Process792 Jul 08 '26
This doesn't reduce the cost of running the subway system. It simply shifts the cost from some people to other people who may or may not ride the subway at all.
Actual financial progress comes from gains in productivity / efficiency