[nialv7]

I don't get it. If you've been enjoying public transportation for so long, then why is your reaction to it getting worse not: OK, we need to fix it so it's as good as it was.

Instead you are just saying: OK, I have the resources to fix the problem for myself, so I don't give a F.

[outime]

I do give a F. I'm paying a fair amount in taxes every month despite not using it.

On top of that, what's your proposal? Whether I use it (and be miserable) or not doesn't move the needle either way, so I choose not to be miserable.

If there were actually a way to make it better, I'd maybe get involved. But since I see zero options, I just stay away from it. Virtue signaling doesn't work for me.

[nialv7]

Ha, the "I pay taxes" type I see. Paying taxes doesn't necessarily mean you care. For example part of the taxes I pay will go into the Military Industrial Complex, but yet I wish they don't exist.

One way to reduce the chance of meeting "unpleasant" people (are they really unpleasant or has your perception just changed as you age?), is to just have more of public transportation! Besides pure statistics, it also makes people's lives better and will reduce poverty.

[bluGill]

transportation is expensive and must be paid somehow. For most people good public transportation would realistically cost them $100 per month - that is less than they spend on a car per month but still a lot of money. (Car costs are mostly hidden - you spend less than that in gas, not noticing the payments, insurance which are paid differently, or maitenance which is large bills not often).

when looking at the above, most people live in a couple situation so think of it as selling one car and keeping the other - it still saves money and you get the best of both worlds. This only works though if transit is getting that money from everyone already though since you need that much before it is useful to those who would pay.

[zmnd]

How do you fix the mentioned problem of "filled with unpleasant people" with money?

[const_cast]

Usually when people get older and start complaining about new "unpleasant people" the issue isn't that new unpleasant people exist. Rather, its that the older person has not adapted and is stuck. They become "get off my lawn" types

[bbradley406]

As someone who is 32 and takes public transport, if a homeless person gets on my train car and smells bad enough to stink up half (or all!) of the car, they have earned the "unpleasant people" label fair and square. Yes I understand it may be their only option, and I sympathize with them but it still makes my trip unpleasant.

[zmnd]

It’s easy to dismiss a problem by just saying that someone is just an “older person” who “didn’t adapt”.

[const_cast]

It is, but it's also just something I see time and time and time again.

Every generation complains about how the world is going to shit and the yougins ain't got no respect and whatever particular segment of brown people at that time don't belong in their country.

I would have some sympathy if this wasn't, like, the millionth time this has happened.

[UtopiaPunk]

Do you think the unpleasantness of people has gotten worse over time? If so, what caused that to happen?

[zmnd]

Not my quote, just pointing out that not everything can be solved with money. But yes, I think it got worse over time.