Passengers' Dilemma

Many of you may be familiar with the predicaments of a situation popularly known as Prisoners’ Dilemma. What I want to present here is a dilemma with a different set of players in a different setting. I want to call this the ‘Passengers’ Dilemma’. Since it involves passengers travelling to a faraway destination in a train.

Here’s a little context to the setting of the dilemma. The trains run by the Indian Railways are plagued by routine late arrivals. For many of the trains, arriving at the destination on-time in a rarity, particularly if the destination is the last stop of the train or if it is after several hours of journey. These delays, which are almost certain for any train that is running between faraway destinations, are the backdrop against which the Passengers’ Dilemma is based.

Let us assume that the Indian Railways comes up with a scheme that identifies ‘Priority Passengers’ & ‘Priority Trains’ and ensures that these Priority Passengers & Priority Trains arrive on-time at their destination. The scheme states that a Priority Passenger is one who pays 50% extra ticket fees. And a Priority Train is a train with at least 40% Priority Passengers. The scheme is designed in such a way that if any given train on any given day has more than 40% of its passengers as ‘priority passengers’ then that particular train would be deemed to be a ‘priority train’ and all efforts would be made to ensure that such ‘priority trains’ would reach their destinations on-time.

Simply put, 40% of the passengers pay extra train ticket costs to reach their destinations on-time. They get no other privileges. While the other 60% of the normal passengers in the same train reach their destinations on-time even though they did not pay the extra ticket cost. They are beneficiaries of the priority train scheme because of the fact that they are in the same train as 40% of the passengers would paid extra money.

Now here’s the question – would you be willing to pay the extra ticket fees and be one of the 40% priority passengers (who are responsible for the train to become priority train)? Or would you rather take the chance that somebody else would pay the extra fees and be a part of the 60% normal passengers who get benefited without paying any extra ticket fees? 
Or do you have any other ideas?? 

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