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duskdozer 86 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Doorman's Fallacy in action

It's not exactly "senselessly" but rather "shrewdly" ensuring that you're incentivized to pay for more time than you'll actually need so that you don't risk getting a ticket or needing to make a trip back to the meter.

TheGRS 86 days ago [–]

Probably also momentum in their previous meter systems to keep it mostly the same.

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