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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then people demanded lots of paved raceways for their cars, which filled up, and made things dangerous for everybody, and worthwhile places far apart, and most of the drivers angry and miserable. Now, the world is on fire, mental health and social cohesion has gone to shit, and all those paved raceways are falling apart because nobody can afford to fix them.

But, yeah, the first part of that story is cute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds like an exaggeration.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Aye, it does sound that way until you start digging into it. The traffic congestion, the road rage, and the rising rate of traffic fatalities are just obvious.

Think about it more, and work-from-home is still a big fight after the pandemic because people hate commuting. It's pretty obvious when looking around out on the road; driving does not make drivers happy on the whole. The world is literally on fire; we had weeks of air-quality alerts around here because of record-breaking Canadian wildfires. Driving everywhere cuts off interactions with other people, the "weak ties" in a community that we now know are essential to countering the loneliness epidemic. In fact, the opioid epidemic is related, because opioids simulate the same brain receptors as social connectedness. And, of course, American infrastructure consistently gets failing grades because we don't maintain it. We would, but state and municipal budgets are straining under the burden.

I'm short, there's tons of justification to "fuck cars", if you look. There's lots more than what I've mentioned here.