• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    In Germany, it’s greed. I remember 18 years ago a train ride to the next city to go to the movies was 1.30 euros. Today it costs 5.80 euros. That’s not inflation, that’s just greed.

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      1 year ago

      They gotta finance their infrastructure somehow.

      Oh, right. They’re incentivized to not do exactly that. So they can cry to the government for even more funds.

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        1 year ago

        Even more obscene is that they used to have a monopoly by law until sometime in the mid-2000s. No other corporation was allowed to compete with Deutsche Bahn, a remnant of Hitler’s agenda to strengthen governmental grip on public transport.

        And still they managed to have deficits in every financial quarter.