Coin-operated elevators sounds like a libertarian paradise!
Coin-operated elevators are a libertarian hellscape!
A single paid fare on the elevator will take the passenger to any floor. While their are fixed costs on the elevator car and the initial installation, the rest of the costs incurred on elevator operation are variable based upon how many floors the elevator traverses before dispensing its passenger. The same coin that takes a passenger to the very top floor of a 25 story building will also only take a passenger one floor up. Where are the variable fare rates so that each passenger only pays for what they are consuming, and nothing more?!
Because much higher costs are incurred from the top floor passenger than the one-floor-up passenger, it means the one-floor-up passenger is subsidizing the top floor passenger. The top floor passenger is a parasite sucking value out of the system without returning an equal profit margin as the one-floor-up passenger. What we’ve got here is socialism!
you aren’t thinking of the little guy, the one that takes advantage of the coin operated elevator to lift multi ton barrels and drop them to generate slightly more electricity than they could have gotten from the electric company
Yes, you obviously still have a monthly fee for the maintenance fund of the roof, walls, plumbing, everything that every apartment uses. But since not everyone uses the elevator, is it truly fair that everyone has to pay for that?
No. You will just pay the fee that you paid before. Plus the elevator fee
Then that means that when there’s an emergency, there’s a bigger fund available. Still a good thing considering how hard it is to get people to increase maintenance fees in some apartment buildings. They’ll let the place fall apart before considering an increase.
Obviously the people in those buildings voted for this system, otherwise it wouldn’t have been done. I suspect it means that maybe 10-20% of people were lazy and used the elevator and everyone else was tired of paying for it.
Coin-operated elevators sounds like a libertarian paradise!
Coin-operated elevators are a libertarian hellscape!
A single paid fare on the elevator will take the passenger to any floor. While their are fixed costs on the elevator car and the initial installation, the rest of the costs incurred on elevator operation are variable based upon how many floors the elevator traverses before dispensing its passenger. The same coin that takes a passenger to the very top floor of a 25 story building will also only take a passenger one floor up. Where are the variable fare rates so that each passenger only pays for what they are consuming, and nothing more?!
Because much higher costs are incurred from the top floor passenger than the one-floor-up passenger, it means the one-floor-up passenger is subsidizing the top floor passenger. The top floor passenger is a parasite sucking value out of the system without returning an equal profit margin as the one-floor-up passenger. What we’ve got here is socialism!
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you aren’t thinking of the little guy, the one that takes advantage of the coin operated elevator to lift multi ton barrels and drop them to generate slightly more electricity than they could have gotten from the electric company
Wait till you try the credit card machines on the toilets.
I’ll piss on the floor.
Fuck it, I’ll piss on the card reader
Careful, urine is conductive.
If you do that urine trouble!
Next: coin operated songbirds
Really? Because if it’s installed by the apartment owners association, it’s just another way to collect money for repairs instead of a monthly fee
*in addition to a monthly fee
Yes, you obviously still have a monthly fee for the maintenance fund of the roof, walls, plumbing, everything that every apartment uses. But since not everyone uses the elevator, is it truly fair that everyone has to pay for that?
No. You will just pay the fee that you paid before. Plus the elevator fee
And yes, it is fair. It’s part of being in a social community
Then that means that when there’s an emergency, there’s a bigger fund available. Still a good thing considering how hard it is to get people to increase maintenance fees in some apartment buildings. They’ll let the place fall apart before considering an increase.
Yes. You might not need it today, but you might tomorrow.
Then you pay tomorrow?
Obviously the people in those buildings voted for this system, otherwise it wouldn’t have been done. I suspect it means that maybe 10-20% of people were lazy and used the elevator and everyone else was tired of paying for it.