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[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 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.

[-] Watson@feddit.de 3 points 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.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 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.

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