Why isn't public transport free?

[BADecker]

Transportation and other benefits will be free, only after we have the robots manufacturing and doing everything for us.

[Leprikon]

Transportation and other benefits will be free, only after we have the robots manufacturing and doing everything for us.

You are kidding yourself. Even if all the robots will be doing, it is still the transportation services will cost money. Need to service robots, need to fuel transport. In addition, the robots need to produce, and it also takes money.

[Sithara007]

Transportation and other benefits will be free, only after we have the robots manufacturing and doing everything for us.

Driverless vehicles are operating around the world, as we discuss this topic here. So robots are in action right now. But even then, the transport has other expenses, such as the fuel costs, and maintenance costs.

[Tyrantt]

Transportation and other benefits will be free, only after we have the robots manufacturing and doing everything for us.

I seriously doubt that, maybe in countries like Swiss only... Here buses are a disaster and the cost of tickets are ridiculous. For example: if you're a student and you live a little further from your college, you need to pay about 1$ for he ride and with that one ticket you can drive around for 1:30 hours thats when it expires, so if you have lectures for 2 hours (an that's mostly the case) you need to pay 2$ daily just for transportation, so monthly that's around 50$ more or less and if you account the meals in cafeteria where all three meals are somewhere around 2$ too, meals would also cost around 50$ monthly without weekends and the average salary here is 400$ but if you let's say finda  job while you're at college you'd be wroking for a min wage that is around 200$...

So with all that the ticket prices and the state of busses and every other public transport shape, they're not forth the 1$ per ticket and that's why I'm always riding without paying for one, I simply didn't have any money to pay with.

[Tyrantt]

Transport free can be free + clothing + food + house + health + education. But you also need to work for free. Do you agree with it?

But sometime in the near future within 100 years. Once every work is occupied by robots the government are oblige to give the citizens its basic needs.

Maybe then there would be less people working so the costs of a business are lowered by that but robots still need to be taken care of...

[Daniel91]

It's not true, public transport in my city is free
Ok, well, only for weekends and during holiday season.
Well, nothing really is free in our lives.
When you look public transports, for example, there are a lot expenses here.
Petrol, salaries for workers, taxes etc.
Someone have to pay for it, either users or local government.
If they don't have enough money, it's just natural thing that users have to pay.

[chachaa]

Transport free can be free + clothing + food + house + health + education. But you also need to work for free. Do you agree with it?

But sometime in the near future within 100 years. Once every work is occupied by robots the government are oblige to give the citizens its basic needs.

Maybe then there would be less people working so the costs of a business are lowered by that but robots still need to be taken care of...

Any coin has two sides. The more robots will do the work of the people, the less jobs and the greater will be the deficit of the pension Fund. How will a person live in a society of robots?

[Tyrantt]

Transport free can be free + clothing + food + house + health + education. But you also need to work for free. Do you agree with it?

But sometime in the near future within 100 years. Once every work is occupied by robots the government are oblige to give the citizens its basic needs.

Maybe then there would be less people working so the costs of a business are lowered by that but robots still need to be taken care of...

Any coin has two sides. The more robots will do the work of the people, the less jobs and the greater will be the deficit of the pension Fund. How will a person live in a society of robots?

That would greatly depends on what you choose in your life, there are some jobs that humans are just better at. Simply put, earth is overpopulated.

[0xfff]

It's not free because people are willing to pay for it so someone has an incentive to charge and make money from it. Government doesn't care about your interests. 

[BADecker]

Transportation and other benefits will be free, only after we have the robots manufacturing and doing everything for us.

You are kidding yourself. Even if all the robots will be doing, it is still the transportation services will cost money. Need to service robots, need to fuel transport. In addition, the robots need to produce, and it also takes money.

Once the robots are built to service themselves, including mining and processing the raw materials, they won't need us, except in a few very specialized areas.

[BADecker]

Transport free can be free + clothing + food + house + health + education. But you also need to work for free. Do you agree with it?

But sometime in the near future within 100 years. Once every work is occupied by robots the government are oblige to give the citizens its basic needs.

Maybe then there would be less people working so the costs of a business are lowered by that but robots still need to be taken care of...

Any coin has two sides. The more robots will do the work of the people, the less jobs and the greater will be the deficit of the pension Fund. How will a person live in a society of robots?

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

[Sithara007]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

[BADecker]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

Not if the robots mine and refine the metals, manufacture the software chips, put together and operate the power plants, run the GPS towers and satellites. And why would they need subscriptions to something that they handled the services for?

Robots can be designed to do all this with little to no supervision. And they don't have to be intelligent robots.

Sure, a few people might need to be available for contingencies that were not thought of ahead of time, or for certain kinds of emergencies. But most of this can be handled in the programming. The few people that would be needed, would be around because they wanted to be. Robots would do all the heavy stuff.

So, what would people do? Anything they wanted. Robots would make everything people needed for life and enjoyment. Travel the world. Swim in the Caribbean, or the off Maldives if you like. Transportation is free, handled by the robots. Everything that is made by people is now made by the robots, for free, because it doesn't cost the robots anything to go out and do it. They rebuild their own worn out parts for free.

[0xfff]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

Not if the robots mine and refine the metals, manufacture the software chips, put together and operate the power plants, run the GPS towers and satellites. And why would they need subscriptions to something that they handled the services for?

Robots can be designed to do all this with little to no supervision. And they don't have to be intelligent robots.

Sure, a few people might need to be available for contingencies that were not thought of ahead of time, or for certain kinds of emergencies. But most of this can be handled in the programming. The few people that would be needed, would be around because they wanted to be. Robots would do all the heavy stuff.

So, what would people do? Anything they wanted. Robots would make everything people needed for life and enjoyment. Travel the world. Swim in the Caribbean, or the off Maldives if you like. Transportation is free, handled by the robots. Everything that is made by people is now made by the robots, for free, because it doesn't cost the robots anything to go out and do it. They rebuild their own worn out parts for free.

[Alfa123]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

Why something should be free? I believe that for everything in this world you have to pay. This is important. If you are for something does not pay, then you don't appreciate it. Give something free that you appreciate.

[0xfff]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

Why something should be free? I believe that for everything in this world you have to pay. This is important. If you are for something does not pay, then you don't appreciate it. Give something free that you appreciate.

I appreciate public bathrooms so I don't have to defecate in a designated street or the ocean like they do in india. https://youtu.be/ixJgY2VSct0?t=6m19s

[Alfa123]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

Why something should be free? I believe that for everything in this world you have to pay. This is important. If you are for something does not pay, then you don't appreciate it. Give something free that you appreciate.

I appreciate public bathrooms so I don't have to defecate in a designated street or the ocean like they do in india. https://youtu.be/ixJgY2VSct0?t=6m19s

Public toilets and their operation cost money. Therefore, the value and the nature of man is given free of charge. So Hindus without a doubt, her foul, the Chinese cut down forest. And a lot of what's going on.

[Sithara007]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

Why something should be free? I believe that for everything in this world you have to pay. This is important. If you are for something does not pay, then you don't appreciate it. Give something free that you appreciate.

Exactly. People don't appreciate something, which is given for free. Wasteful spending and vandalism will follow. Subsidizing the public transport is a good idea. But making it entirely free may be bad.

[pseexh]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

Why something should be free? I believe that for everything in this world you have to pay. This is important. If you are for something does not pay, then you don't appreciate it. Give something free that you appreciate.

Exactly. People don't appreciate something, which is given for free. Wasteful spending and vandalism will follow. Subsidizing the public transport is a good idea. But making it entirely free may be bad.

To subsidize the transportation you need somewhere to take the money for subsidies. If I have a car and I don't use public transport, why should I through taxes to pay for a service which is not use?

[BADecker]

Are you talking money here? Robots don't need money. Tokens can be given to people to use the benefits of the robots. People who are fearful that they won't have a place in life, need not be. People will be way more inventive than robots for a long time. People will always be able to find themselves something to do.

The metals, software and chips needed for manufacturing robots needs to be purchased from somewhere. Also, the robots need electricity for their operation, and paid services such as GPS and software subscription to perform normally.

Why something should be free? I believe that for everything in this world you have to pay. This is important. If you are for something does not pay, then you don't appreciate it. Give something free that you appreciate.

Exactly. People don't appreciate something, which is given for free. Wasteful spending and vandalism will follow. Subsidizing the public transport is a good idea. But making it entirely free may be bad.

Further exactly. So, you realize that something that isn't free isn't appreciated? Well then work to keep yourself from using the free stuff. Work hard and figure out a way. Or pay for those who want it free. Nobody says you have to use free stuff. Just don't use it. There will be lots of people like you. Join with them and work like crazy. It will even be tougher for you, because you will have to fight your own temptation to use the free stuff. Be an man/woman. Stand up and work.

But let those of us who want the easy life have it.