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Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 05 June 2013 02:51:46AM 0 points [-]

The political problem is that some people would be charged more; regression to the mean suggests that those people would be the ones who currently pay the least. The people who pay the least are the people who use the least power.

Everything you say is true, but your implied argument is flawed (you are implicitly making an "all A are B, all C are B, therefore all A are C" argument). If we had a fixed fee, and were discussing the possibility of eliminating it, your argument would apply just as well.

Comment author: Decius 05 June 2013 05:58:07AM 0 points [-]

Sorry- that made much more sense as a lead-in to the self-redacted segment where I pointed out that the higher-spending (and presumed higher-income) users were subsidizing the poor, and suggested that might be a feature.

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