Im sorry, opportunity cost? You mean what they gave up in exchange for that 15 minute wait? Literally the potential to make a portion of that $15-20 as profit? The happiness loss of a 15 minute delay? That is what you use to justify vehicular and physical assault.
So, let me go through this as I literally tutor opportunity cost - easiest way is to compare is divide what you give up vs what you get. I cant put happiness as a unit, so let’s go time.
Assaulting a person with a vehicle. Got you through a protest at best 15 minutes early - after the argument possibly closer to 8 or so, but let’s go instant result at say they were the first one and it got them through at the instant the protest started. You can argue plenty on the happiness gained from not being delayed, satisfaction of bullying someone, bragging stories over smoko, ego boost, but as I say no unit. They gained, at best, 15 minutes.
Now, looking at the summary of offenses act 1981 (113) S9 common assault, the maximum fine is 6 months imprisonment or a fine not exceeding $4000. Lets go half way, they got 3 months (12 weeks) prison, 12,960 minutes. They potentially gave up 12,960 minutes, and then have to go into the happiness discussion around missing kids and partners, loss of job, potentially loss of vehicle, standing in community, all that.
Gave up (12960 min) divided by what they got (15 minutes) - opportunity cost of 8064 what the got back from it.
It is worth noting that obstruction of public way is also covered in s22 - maximum fine of 1000 per person if not done for a good reason, and any good lawyer could argue climate change in real and possibly call self defense… if not, assault carried a higher financial cost that the three protests combined.
Now, because you clearly threw out a word that sounded good but you have no idea what it actually is, ill analyse the result in context for you. This is what is known as a no-win scenario, and the best strategy forward its to pick the one that costs you the least. Best case is to sit the fuck down, keep your fucking hands to yourself like we teach kids, let the cops do the job we pay them for, and maybe consider for one second these people are doing what they are doing because those with the money, big tradie cars and no education don’t give a flying fuck.
Im sorry, opportunity cost? You mean what they gave up in exchange for that 15 minute wait? Literally the potential to make a portion of that $15-20 as profit? The happiness loss of a 15 minute delay? That is what you use to justify vehicular and physical assault.
So, let me go through this as I literally tutor opportunity cost - easiest way is to compare is divide what you give up vs what you get. I cant put happiness as a unit, so let’s go time.
Assaulting a person with a vehicle. Got you through a protest at best 15 minutes early - after the argument possibly closer to 8 or so, but let’s go instant result at say they were the first one and it got them through at the instant the protest started. You can argue plenty on the happiness gained from not being delayed, satisfaction of bullying someone, bragging stories over smoko, ego boost, but as I say no unit. They gained, at best, 15 minutes.
Now, looking at the summary of offenses act 1981 (113) S9 common assault, the maximum fine is 6 months imprisonment or a fine not exceeding $4000. Lets go half way, they got 3 months (12 weeks) prison, 12,960 minutes. They potentially gave up 12,960 minutes, and then have to go into the happiness discussion around missing kids and partners, loss of job, potentially loss of vehicle, standing in community, all that.
Gave up (12960 min) divided by what they got (15 minutes) - opportunity cost of 8064 what the got back from it.
It is worth noting that obstruction of public way is also covered in s22 - maximum fine of 1000 per person if not done for a good reason, and any good lawyer could argue climate change in real and possibly call self defense… if not, assault carried a higher financial cost that the three protests combined.
Now, because you clearly threw out a word that sounded good but you have no idea what it actually is, ill analyse the result in context for you. This is what is known as a no-win scenario, and the best strategy forward its to pick the one that costs you the least. Best case is to sit the fuck down, keep your fucking hands to yourself like we teach kids, let the cops do the job we pay them for, and maybe consider for one second these people are doing what they are doing because those with the money, big tradie cars and no education don’t give a flying fuck.
Tl-dr