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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-02-16 18:20
> A (not so) bad analogy is a public transportation system. Probably most of it
> is not profitable, yet if one only keeps the lines that make revenue, the
> system as whole loses its identity and probably ends up failing in the long
> run.
That very much depends how you are calculating. If you consider all externally paid costs (eg pollution is not paid for by the car driver but the whole society; the cost of freightliners waiting in congested roads is added to the product price etc), then public transportation could be profitable.
But I digress.
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Ben
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