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Doordash fees.

  • Library late fees (kidding, my local library still charges 10 cents per day)
Austin's public libraries have stopped charging late fees:
Q: Will this change discourage returns and make it harder for me to find books? A: Studies of libraries in other communities that have eliminated late fees have found that ending late fees actually results in a higher rate of books being returned, as people are less likely to avoid the library if they are not concerned about having to pay money. That means more books in circulation for APL customers.
I wish they cited their sources but it's certainly plausible.
I've heard the same thing from other library systems, too. It felt counter-intuitive at first, but I could definitely see it being true!
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Wait... I just envisioned a beautiful system.
Imagine if libraries worked off of V4V incentives.
Every citizen wishing to use the library pays up some Sats. If they return books on time - balance stays the same. If late, sats begin to be donated at a split to the library/other citizen library users with books out on loan. If return early... your balance is now owing some sats to you - which you can then choose to donate or hodl.
Basically like Stacker News. 😳🤯
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Fix the money, fix the world.
Some parallels to a deflationary money like Bitcoin is it incentivizes V4V while fiat usually feels punitive.
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Totally, it's thisnwhich will fix the world
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That's quite interesting. Game theory at play.
The thing is, at 10 cents per day... it's not really a fine at that point. A few days late is 30 cents. (face melt emoji).
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 16 Aug
I know "doordashflation" as a buzzword for people missunderstanding what inflation is. Because Doordash was like Uber for years and years cross financed by VC to get customers hooked on it before making an actual working business out of it. Having a private taxi for a Burrito was never as cheap as it seemed because someone else payed for it.
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Yeah good points. Using prices to measure inflation is a vague proxy - which was sort of my point. It's all a house-of-cards built on a facade of an illusion.
My real contention is when a business raises prices roughly in-line with inflation and then the un-informed public eats up the rhetoric the government/media propaganda machine feeds them, which is: cOrPoRaTe gReEd and gOuGiNg.
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Lol. I switch between the food delivery apps to get the free service charges. Last I paid it was a $3 or 4 fee I think. Or something along those lines. I would guess it's creeping up to 6.99 or 7.99.
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Always get the deals