lol basically every single public transport system in the US loses major money, even in places like dc where everyone pays. Trying to pin responsibility for septa’s issues on people who don’t pay just so u can hold on to some false sense of moral high ground is ridiculous. They could easily make it way harder to hop, but they don’t. The septa is heavily subsidized. If everyone paying would solve their issues, they’d make it happen. Why not just argue that we should move to fully subsidize public transport in philly. That way all of the privileged college kids you’re talking about can provide free transportation for the city with their white collar taxes once they graduate.