2025-07-03 02:15 UTC
@blaise they’re not expensive at all. We’ve had rent control similar to his program, many times. We already have dozens of free markets much larger than the one he proposes. The ferry system is free to Staten Island and our city university used to be; buses are not much larger scale than that, and we’ll save a ton on safety costs. None of this is anywhere near the increase in costs we had from flooding the subways with useless cops.
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@blaise@friendica.rogueproject.org 2025-07-03 14:55
@anildash@me.dm I'm not saying it can't be done, I just don't have much faith in political promises like "We'll get the state to help", "We'll just tax corporations and rich more", and "We'll just raise the minimum wage". I literally don't remember *any* of those ever producing anything but just-barely-statistically-significant results...
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@PursuitOfElysia@urbanists.social 2025-07-04 14:44
@anildash@me.dm @blaise SO much money is saved on fare enforcement by making transit free.