Well, my experience is also fact. I use trains every week now, I have visited half a dozen cities with this ticket and used local public transportation there. It's crowded but otherwise fine. Just because these experiences aren't reported on the news does not make them less real.

> 9€ for you, €2.5 billion+ for us.

"us" does a lot of lifting here because "us" is literally millions of people (including I). This statement also compares costs of a ticket for a single month with the total subsidization over three months.

> I'm against the government doing populism and burning our money like that.

I think we have to agree to disagree here. I think it is money spent well.