Embrace the heresy, touch the third rail

Capital gains and other shibboleths

Let’s examine some numbers.

This is a public transport number.

3% 

And this is an invitation to make an educated guess:

In the morning rush hour in Wellington on Thorndon Quay, what proportion of the vehicles are buses?

Yes indeed …the answer is:

3% 

However, what do we find if we look inside those buses? Care to guess the proportion of people making the trip…