Free trains for students
An example of state interference in the market mechanism is the recent controversial action of 17 November 2014 - free travel by train for students and pensioners. The basics of economics say that if the price of a service is low, the quality will also be low. In past years the action Train and LIDL took place, where for a symbolic fare of 6 euros it was possible on Saturday to travel by train all day long. Only a limited quantity of such tickets was sold (5 000?). The result of the unjustifiably cheap fare, when the price did not reflect supply and demand, was that for the morning long-distance trains on Saturday morning a mass of people was gearing up towards the Tatras, but not all travellers got onto the trains, and those who did travel, travelled standing on one foot in an overcrowded train at 200% capacity. Those who remained at the station with a tear in their eye, looking at the hopelessly full departing train and holding a "lidlenka" for 6 euros in their hand, experimentally confirmed the saying that we are not so rich as to buy cheap things. So this, dear students, is what awaits you from 17 November - inasmuch as the railways do not have the capacity of people nor the timetable built for a multiplied increase in the number of travellers. Similarly, as free gas would cause the gas-pipeline network to be overloaded, and winter would be had also by those who wanted to pay for heating with gas.
At the same time there is no problem with money, since money is only numbers, information, it creates a kind of description of the real world with limited scarce resources. Price-making is in fact the solving of systems of millions of equations, so that the system is in balance, so that as many shirts are produced as is needed, that everyone who has a serious interest in buying one, also buys one. So that as many cars, wagons, yoghurts, bread, mobiles, and computers are produced as is needed.
The example from mathematics says:
Express trains Bratislava (BA) - Košice (KE) run in a two-hour interval from 5:00 to 21:00. The express train has on average 12 wagons with a capacity of 89 seated people.
Calculate:
A. what is the average capacity of this line, i.e. the number of transported people per hour.
B. how many people can be transported on this route each day.
C. how many days it would take for the railway to be able to transport all Slovaks (5 000 000 people) from BA to KE.
At the same time there is no problem with money, since money is only numbers, information, it creates a kind of description of the real world with limited scarce resources. Price-making is in fact the solving of systems of millions of equations, so that the system is in balance, so that as many shirts are produced as is needed, that everyone who has a serious interest in buying one, also buys one. So that as many cars, wagons, yoghurts, bread, mobiles, and computers are produced as is needed.
The example from mathematics says:
Express trains Bratislava (BA) - Košice (KE) run in a two-hour interval from 5:00 to 21:00. The express train has on average 12 wagons with a capacity of 89 seated people.
Calculate:
A. what is the average capacity of this line, i.e. the number of transported people per hour.
B. how many people can be transported on this route each day.
C. how many days it would take for the railway to be able to transport all Slovaks (5 000 000 people) from BA to KE.
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