Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
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Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
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Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#2There is a more in depth interview about this subject in podcast form, if that's what you prefer: http://www.maximumfun.org/adam-ruins-everything/episode-10-p...
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#3I don't disagree with the analysis on how free parking makes things more expensive, but if you carry that argument forward, it gets kind silly.
Credit cards make everything more expensive when the poor often can't use them due to bad credit.
Putting grocery stores in really upscale areas makes the groceries cost more (across all stores), even though the poor don't shop at the fancy stores.
I'm sure what this article is arguing for.
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#4i can't wait for http://www.seasteading.org to take off and live where there are no cars. Or maybe http://freedomship.com is what I need as long as it has free wifi.
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#5I don't disagree with the analysis on how free parking makes things more expensive, but if you carry that argument forward, it gets kind silly. Credit cards make everything more expensive when the poor often can't use them due to bad credit. Putting grocery stores in really upscale areas makes the groceries cost more (across all stores), even though the poor don't shop at the fancy stores. I'm sure what this article…
I think the argument is that city planners (the State) requires a minimum amount of parking for all structures, thereby raising the price of all goods. It's not that expensive things are bad, but that maybe the State should focus on affordable housing for the poor.
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#6I don't disagree with the analysis on how free parking makes things more expensive, but if you carry that argument forward, it gets kind silly. Credit cards make everything more expensive when the poor often can't use them due to bad credit. Putting grocery stores in really upscale areas makes the groceries cost more (across all stores), even though the poor don't shop at the fancy stores. I'm sure what this article…
> Credit cards make everything more expensive when the poor often can't use them due to bad credit.
This makes sense.
> Putting grocery stores in really upscale areas makes the groceries cost more (across all stores), even though the poor don't shop at the fancy stores.
This does not. You've transitioned to talking about averages for some reason.
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#7I don't disagree with the analysis on how free parking makes things more expensive, but if you carry that argument forward, it gets kind silly. Credit cards make everything more expensive when the poor often can't use them due to bad credit. Putting grocery stores in really upscale areas makes the groceries cost more (across all stores), even though the poor don't shop at the fancy stores. I'm sure what this article…
They're not arguing against free parking, just against regulations that require certain amounts of parking to be built
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#8Yes, it can embed the cost. However the problem solving approach should be social one; more tax from who can afford, which means in this case, the car owners. Without social, community based approach, the solution surely become less protective and more discrimitive to poor people.
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#9I don't disagree with the analysis on how free parking makes things more expensive, but if you carry that argument forward, it gets kind silly. Credit cards make everything more expensive when the poor often can't use them due to bad credit. Putting grocery stores in really upscale areas makes the groceries cost more (across all stores), even though the poor don't shop at the fancy stores. I'm sure what this article…
They're not arguing against free parking, just against regulations that require certain amounts of parking to be built
Unfortunately insufficient parking is also a big issues; one in which these regulations are an attempt to solve. One could prevent less parking to be built but that would put more pressure on public roads. If you've ever been to an area with insufficient parking, it's pretty horrible. More so for people with cars but it affects those without cars as well.
Re: Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car
#10I don't disagree with the numbers but you could make this same argument for literally any feature of a business that has the affect of making that business more attractive to customers with Y quality (where Y is not something all customers have).
Let's imagine that the parking lots of Walmart, $localSupermarketChain and other stores is cut to 1/4 it's present size. What happens then? I suspect the inability to draw wealthier customers from further away (because "why shop somewhere you can't find parking") would cause a price increase.