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but that is a market you are describing, one for the allocation of resources it isn't really, the resources are created by the structure commercialising the se
by muyuu 3mo ago
but that is a market you are describing, one for the allocation of resources
it isn't really, the resources are created by the structure commercialising the service, and incidentally the other means of transportation are also made expensive by a connected structure
owning and operating a car in the UK is very expensive, esp. if you need to regularly park it near the most important economic centres, and this is also by design
more than a market, it's engineered scarcity and tax collection running this service and that is what they're maximising for, instead of economy of transportation which is perhaps the implied real metric of what would work as a market
- mytailorisrich 3mo ago> "the resources are created by the structure commercialising the service" So you mean selling tickets, not subsidies? Building railways and operating rail services cost money, a lot of it, actually. Is it a good allocation of resources, especially taxpayers' money, to make it free/almost free when people can afford to pay for it via tickets and funding/investments are needed elsewhere and (as the case may be) public finances are in a bad shape? That's the way it is. Resources are always finite and thus there is always an issue with allocating them.
- muyuu 3mo agono, i don't mean that at all there is not a set number of tickets that either get bought by the consumer or subsidised, that is so far departed from the issues it's pointless to even consider