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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I know what you mean, but the way I view it, your employer should be paying for your parking. If they aren't, they're stealing from you. They're not directly making a "profit" from what you pay in parking, but they are passing costs they should be incurring onto you.
So, since they should be paying for your parking, when you don't pay parking to park in a lot owned by someone else when you're parking there for work, it's your employer stealing from the owners of that lot... in theory.
Then again, even without that roundabout way of justifying it... 95% of parking companies in Calgary charge fees that amount to some sort of robbery, so I feel like it all works out anyway.
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Isn’t that a shell game though? You chose between jobs based on total compensation and total expenses. Your employer pays you based on total comp in order to be competitive in the market place.
None of those values change no matter where you put the parking cost. The total comp isn’t changing unless the market drives it.
The real theft is the parking lot owner from the city. The cost of driving to work is in building infrastructure for rush hour. The city limits parking downtown as we can’t build enough infrastructure for everyone to reasonably drive alone. So the city should be having significant taxes on parking to capture the demand from the scarcity created by limited parking and use it to subsidize alternatives.