No. They are not.
Coin-operated elevators sounds like a libertarian paradise!
Coin-operated elevators sounds like a libertarian paradise!
Coin-operated elevators are a libertarian hellscape!
A single paid fare on the elevator will take the passenger to any floor. While their are fixed costs on the elevator car and the initial installation, the rest of the costs incurred on elevator operation are variable based upon how many floors the elevator traverses before dispensing its passenger. The same coin that takes a passenger to the very top floor of a 25 story building will also only take a passenger one floor up. Where are the variable fare rates so that each passenger only pays for what they are consuming, and nothing more?!
Because much higher costs are incurred from the top floor passenger than the one-floor-up passenger, it means the one-floor-up passenger is subsidizing the top floor passenger. The top floor passenger is a parasite sucking value out of the system without returning an equal profit margin as the one-floor-up passenger. What we’ve got here is socialism!
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Wait till you try the credit card machines on the toilets.
I’ll piss on the floor.
Fuck it, I’ll piss on the card reader
Next: coin operated songbirds
Well I’ve heard of a Coin operated boy but not an elevator.
So are hammer attacks
I like people in gym clothes who get off on the 2nd or third floor.
Maybe it’s leg day and they’re spent
There is a bin store in my town and it pulls in about 400 or more customers a day. At least on $12 and $1 days. With so many people wanting to use his toilet and his water tax increasing, the owner installed a pay toilet. Of course people were taping over the lock so he stationed a security guy by the door. Now customers are going out behind his building to do their business and you can smell it as you drive up. Who carries change? I don’t even shop at stores that require me to insert a quarter for a cart. Anyway, a rounded backward key works. My sister now carries spare keys with her and I told her she could just as easily carry quarters but it is the principle. I just don’t shop there, on principle. I also don’t shop at membership clubs. If BJ’s, Sams or Costco wants my money, they have to pay me to come in. Otherwise, it is bin stores and farmers markets for me.
It was like this in the 70s in my building
TBH I would prefer if it was still like this, because now that is free and everyone is using it, I’m paying €200/year for electric and maintenance for an elevator that I take once a month (split bill between all apartments)
Yeah, let’s charge people for every little bit of the building you in particular don’t use. Fuck it, coin operated fire suppression systems because Wispy2891 doesn’t want to pay for the maintenance in a building he or she lives in.
Well at the fifth floor there’s an asshole that’s renting the whole floor on Airbnb and I’m contributing to that, with all the up and down traffic of tourists. Would you be happy? Before the Airbnb I spent way less than that
The coin was just a token, 100 lire (0.05€ + 50 years of inflation, let’s say 50 cents). It doesn’t cover maintenance but it avoids assholes repurposing a residential apartment as hotels. And it had a key to bypass it (example: wheelchairs and such)
