From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 15:26:50 MST
Mike wrote:
>
> Mass transit is only viable in areas which have already been radically
> transformed by other socialist policies, like fuel and other taxes,
> oppressive parking enforcement, and restrictions on construction of
> private parking facilities. Successfully used public mass transit is a
> paramount sign of a mature and ingrained socialist society.
### Mike, you have it partially right - if a rich country still uses mass
transit, it usually means socialist interference with the economy, or
effects of heritage infrastructure (high-density cities built at the time
when personal transportation was much more limited for technological
reasons). On the other hand, poor people are forced to use buses until they
earn enough (both as individuals and as a nation) to switch to their own
vehicles.
The switch to freedom is a general preference as people get richer, which
maybe (if I may advance such a paranoid and mean hypothesis) explains why
those who espouse herd mentality don't like people getting rich at all.
Rafal
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