I have no idea about the number of people this has actually affected, but this is exactly my situation. Need a new workstation with a bunch of RAM to replace my Win10 machine, so I don't really have viable options than paying the going rate.

Would use less bandwidth than wi-fi cameras that are uploading 24/7.

Juries are a just an implementation detail of the justice system used by Britain and some of its former colonies.

I'm talking at a higher level - I'm saying that conceptually, "inconvenience" ranges from mild offences to murder, and society has to decide where to draw some line for inconveniences that it will not permit. If someone is determined to re-offend, regardless of severity, the state's only choices are to either let them re-offend, or to use force to prevent it.

The box is clear, the driver can see what people drop in.

There’s nothing stopping you from putting half the fare amount in nickels in, but really, there’s nothing stopping you from putting nothing in and just taking a seat - bus drivers aren’t equipped to police fare evasion in either case.

In practice, 80-90% of riders have monthly passes that are just pieces of paper that you wave in front of the driver as you get on.

I’m not oblivious to the downsides of such a system, but there are real upsides around low cost, and no technology to ever go out of date.

> The boxes themselves are expensive, as they have to be able to sort and count coins.

The boxes in my city of ~1.7 million don't do this. They're just boxes. Presumably they have some big box at the bus HQ they dump them in to sort the change.

> And it doesn't raise compliance at all. Why would it?

I'm not saying they raise compliance over other systems, I'm saying that observationally, compliance is pretty good. When I take the bus, I see basically everyone either put something that looks like a fare/ticket in the box or show a transit pass to the driver.