• rubpoll [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Liberals love describing basic public service concepts as if they’re fantastical utopian fever dreams.

    Things like free public transportation, or public zero-interest banks, or public grocers.

    It’s usually a “well that could never work” and refusal to elaborate on why. If it doesn’t presently exist in America, it must be impossible and ridiculous, especially if there’s no price barrier.

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      1 year ago

      At least in Europe, the norm isn’t free public transport, but very cheap subsidized public transport. In Prague, for example, 1 month of unlimited bus & metro use is currently 50 USD.

      I think Prague has an amazing public transport system, it’s really intelligently designed.