Jezcoe
October 22, 2019, 2:16pm
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CassandraJoe:
I’m still not sure I understand what you mean.
The typical socialist response to filling the gap between the cost of providing public transportation and the fees to pay for it is to subsidize through increased taxes. Increasing prices is typically a Capitalist solution.
I’m not familiar with Chilean society, particularly in Santiago, but it seems that public transportation is heavily relied on by the residents there - particularly those that can’t afford an automobile. An increase in fares there would likely be viewed the same way significant gas price increases would be viewed in the United States - a dramatic increase in a vital cost of living. How do you get to work if you can’t afford the cost of transport?
This issue appears to me to be more the result of Income inequality - a distinctly Capitalist problem - rather than oppressive Socialism. Poor Chileans feeling they are being asked to bear the cost of Government while the wealthy are exempt.
Back in the George W Bush Administration, Chile’s free-market retirement system was held up as an example of why Social Security funds should be invested in the Stock Market. Then the World Economy crashed and capitalist Conservatives fell quiet.
And Socialist protestors in HK?? There is no more capitalist place on Earth and the protestors are marching AGAINST the Communist Government of mainland China.
I’m not understanding.
Yeah. I was just thinking how Chile was the Petri dish for all of the Chicago School Economics that seems to be great on paper, but only work to concentrate wealth and increase inequality.
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