We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy industry is there to support us. The tech industry is as the artists of old. We are a small number at the tip-top of a pyramid. Remove anything below us and we topple.
Out of sheer morbid curiosity, I really want to know more about this basic math you think supports your point.
Please be more specific... What is it that confuses you. The lack of wages for public service? Or the idea that people are standing up for their rights?
I apologize for my ignorance my communication skills are less than par. I do not understand your comment... Are you associating the recent partial govt shutdown to strike/rally? If so, please explain the correlations.
Fact: Many existing transit services originated as private companies.
Funding often came from business, retailer, and real-estate interests: increasing the availability of transportation increased the availability of employees, of shoppers, and the value of housing.
On a large scale, though transit companies are hugely capital intensive, require close coordination with other entities, and tend to have positive externalities which limit the ability to fund operations strictly out of farebox revenues.
A large number of non-BART commuters, employers, retailers, and others, are about to discover the value of the transit system, which moves over 370,000 riders daily.