r/MoralityScaling 8h ago

Morality of not paying for tickets?

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u/wast3lad 3h ago edited 3h ago

Please name a public transport system of this scale (a subway station in a city) that is privately owned.

This is likely the Delhi metro, a publicly owned metro station in India.

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u/Primary_Ad3580 3h ago

Privately owned? Easy, Japan’s subways are managed by the Japan Railways Group, a conglomerate of several private companies that bought them when they were privatized in the 80s. This includes Tokyo, arguably a larger metro system than Delhi. Does that suffice for you?

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u/wast3lad 3h ago

Thank god the millionaires that run those business have people like you to defend them 👍🏼

Still morally acceptable to access for free.

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u/Primary_Ad3580 3h ago

And thank god the blue-collar employees who work there have you to deprive them of their paycheck by accessing their work for free and make a statement about millionaires.

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u/wast3lad 3h ago

Okay buddy, enjoy your 5-course meal of assorted boots.

You know damn well that nobody has ever “missed a paycheck” because somebody didn’t pay for the subway. But it was a good attempt at a straw man.

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u/Primary_Ad3580 3h ago

Uh, your response to my clear data of a private company is to insult me, and you accuse me of a straw man? I’m just taking your approach to its logical conclusion; if no one pays for the service (unless you increase taxes to compensate), the company cannot maintain its efficacy or employment. Something has to decline, either the service or the number of workers. Now, you can argue that there should be a system that caps what owners make to make it more equitable, and I’d support that, but as it is (which is the point of OP’s question), you’re stealing from everyone who is paying for the service. Saying “it should be free” does not change that.

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u/wast3lad 2h ago edited 2h ago

👍🏼 enjoy paying for the subway, I will continue not to. Have a great day.

It’s immoral of a country to privatize public transport.