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30 million people donating 200 each...totally doable.


Or 3 million people donating $2000 each for huge discounts on long term access. I would donate $10,000 if the discount was steep enough on long term use and included use of future expansions of the system.


Or better yet, sell tickets at a discount that can then be re-sold when the system is complete. Someone could buy $1M of reduced price tickets and then resell them for $2M when the system is ready. This way wealthy individuals wouldn't hit a maximum investable amount based on their personal expected use of the system.


They'd better make sure not to fall in American Airlines "Lifetime pass" trap, then:

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-...


That's more than the population of the cities it would connect. Maybe if it was NY to LA.




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