It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to predict what new information can be derived from the combination of different datasets collected from your devices.

Especially as the N of datasets grows.

Biden Admin?

Yes, when Lina Khan was FTC Head during the Biden Administration she helped protect consumer rights by getting iRobot sold to a Chinese company.

Invisible. Trust me.

Free public roads and highways? Free public parking? Good, normal, should be encouraged. Add a lane or two to the highway? Always a good idea! (hint: it never is)

Free public transit? KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! It will never work (those places it did are aberrations)

Go look up: 1. Jevons paradox (induced demand): More road capacity → more traffic. 2. Marchetti’s constant (30-minute city): Average commute time is stable; faster modes → sprawl. 3. Downs–Thomson paradox (transit sets highway speed): Car speeds improve only if transit gets better. 4. Braess’s paradox (network effect): Adding a new road can worsen traffic for everyone.

Free transit: IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL

The political class are not typically utilizers of public transit: hence even the best attempts are structurally challenged from the outset.

If that isn’t factored into your analysis, you are missing a huge reason why it sometimes fails and sometimes succeeds.

Of course the rhetoric is such. One of those things helps poor folks more than the others.

>Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL

Every time you fuel up a vehicle you are paying a "fare" to use the road. The fare is subsidized (just like with the bus), but it is very much there and not zero.

What if I drive an electric vehicle? Sure, my registration is possibly pricier, but I'm in no way paying a usage fee.

You're being subsidized because the .gov decides they want more of you so they make what you do artificially cheap compared to the baseline.

That's what we're suggesting be done for public transit

Every time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes.

I guess busses run on fairy dust too?

>Every time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes.

>I guess busses run on fairy dust too?

Every vehicle on the roads is basically paying to be there via fuel tax (which in whole or large part is spent on the roads). Busses pass some of this cost on to their riders who's fare may be then subsidized in part or full.

I don't see why you're being so hysterical.

Exact same argument was made against the interstate highway system.

Now it is lauded as one of the highest ROI investments the US govt ever made.

If you really want to do the math: if we value all urban land equivalently, what is the subsidy provided by free parking? In NYC, it’s astronomical.

Free transit is trivial to fund if you actually care about humans being productive.

Not everyone does: harder to capture rents that way.

The commons of the creative output of humanity is a resource, just like oil or lithium.

We are rapidly replaying the worst of the Resource Curse.

Fun fact: Biff Tannen was modeled after Donald Trump.

Turns out the darkest timeline is also the dumbest.

https://www.nme.com/news/back-to-the-future-writer-reveals-b...

You can read the entire exchange for yourself, it’s a link.

At the bottom of the article.