Willms wrote:

Am Wed, 12 May 2010 16:58:01 UTC, schrieb Arthur Figgis
auf uk.railway :

Lambada only happens with ticket barriers. Get rid of the
barriers, and there will no more Lambada.

How will getting rid of ticket barriers prevent dishonesty?

How will keeping (and expanding) ticket barriers prevent dishonesty?


By making it harder to put into practice.

I overheard some men on a train journey a couple of months ago. They
were saying about how great it is that you don't need to pay on trains,
just walk into the station, get the train, walk off at the other end,
no-one ever pays because no-one ever needs to pay, and wouldn't it be
great if all other forms of transport like planes were free too...

Putting barriers up on that line would make free travel a bit harder for
them, since they wouldn't be able to walk in and out of the station
quite so easily.


Isn't dishonesty a favored attitude by a ruling ideology which
prescribes the egoistic battle of each against each other?

No.


Aren't ticket barriers just another expression of this ideology
which elates personal greed as the supreme virtue?

No, their the expression of an ideology which elates _corporate_ greed
as the supreme virtue. The corporations want your money, and want to
rob you of the opportunity to make journeys without paying.

It's a _lack_ of barriers that expresses the victory of personal greed
over corporate greed, and that's sadly happening less and less these
days.