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We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop. (lloydalter.substack.com)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

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[–] 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I met a ~26yo girl who told me I wasn't in the same stage of life as her because I didn't have a car....

By any other capitalistic metric, I was more "advanced" in life... But I didn't have a car 😱 (comparing money is dumb, just making a point)

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, in american culture, to a lot of people "having a car" means "being grown up" and "not having a car" means "not being grown up."

    It's a childish mentality really, and indicates that that 26 year old hadn't done any "growing up" in approximately a decade.

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