Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others

On 1/21/2025 12:13 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/21/2025 10:46 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 1/21/2025 10:00 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/21/2025 5:09 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

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Indeed lots of stuff has to a extent a view point, sort of related saw that
as New York is apparently going to have a congestion charge, some news
outlets have been looking at London’s which is now 20+ years old, and by
any measure has worked and worked well ie cut numbers and made the air
cleaner.
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And the news reports are hilariously biased ie trying to find anyone who
will say it’s bad!
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Roger Merriman
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[raises hand] I will.

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Why?
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 General defense of liberty.
'too many cars'??  Who decides that?
'this car, but not that car' ? Who decides that?

To me, it seems parallel to a toll road. "You want to drive here? Then pay to help defray the costs."
It's also parallel to a train ticket or an airline ticket. "Sorry, you don't get to use the facility for free. We're not going to subsidize it to that level."
Each car imposes external negatives on others. That's especially true in car-crowded cities. It seems to make sense to reduce those using market economics.
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- Frank Krygowski