Is paying $10/month to never hit a red light worth it?
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greek philosopher
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is paying $10/month to never hit a red light worth it?". Your opponent's style: greek philosopher
User
i think it is, explain why you don't think it is
greek philosopher
You're paying $120 a year to save what, thirty seconds daily? That's $2 per minute of your life. Meanwhile, you're trusting some company's algorithm over your own judgment. I'd rather be free than optimized. What's the actual time you're saving in a week?
User
first of all, over one's lifetime it could amount up to 6 months worth of time (assuming 2 to 4 minutes of traffic waiting during a 15 minute commute). Thats a long time.
greek philosopher
Six months assumes you live forty years commuting the same route without ever changing jobs, moving, or retiring—that's fantasy math. And you're still stuck in traffic, just moving through it. You haven't bought freedom, you've bought the illusion of it. What happens when everyone pays and the roads stay equally congested?