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Under Woke 2 you will pay your bus fare every single time.

Paying for a public good is very different from paying a private corporation owned by the 4th-richest person on Earth.

Counterpoint: stealing is bad.

We love the ever expanding surveillance state

Grocery stores should just pay checkout clerks.

I mean yeah, or we could push to ban corporate stores. Walmart, Amazon, and/or Kroger shouldn’t be allowed to kill our local economy to monopolize our communities. No company should be so big that any community is completely reliant upon it.

I mean not that I’d know this first hand because I would NEVER call the Sumo orange a regular orange. But, like, I hear.

And it’s the same with transit. You get fare beating down by buying state-of-the-art gates and improving the productivity of proof-of-payment inspections, not through hectoring. Though ultimately the system is managed politically, so the no-bedtime caucus needs to be defeated discursively.

the drastic results of BART’s fare gate program have really changed my priors here