then everybody wants free run of the public transportation.
tell me, who in this world, if given a choice, doesn't want free education, free health services, free insurance, free transportation, free libraries? this is called the tragedy of the commons, alluding to overgrazing in villages when there was no control, in case some get me wrong.
can always absorb it and throw it to another division and divide up the pie. not easy, but well, i can't see any other workable plan.
during my discussion as mentioned earlier, i wanted to bring up the point of externalities, i.e. the fact that beyond certain limits, people start to take away the value of what the particular good or service is to each other. for example, you would certainly be more willing to pay $3 for a train ride where you can sit as opposed to $3 for a train ride where there is litter all over the floor, noisy kids, and everybody is packed like sardines.
but it just doesn't seem right, even though in an entirely rational world, certainly there is some merit to that line of thought.