• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    In a way it does, if cars didn’t exist you would have found work closer to home and your environmental impact would be lower. Your situation exist because cars allow it to.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s a bad way to phrase it because it frames cars as technological innovation providing a benefit.

      The reality, and the best way to phrase it, is different: his situation exists because massive government subsidies for car infrastructure allows it to. He’s not an enjoyer of modern convenience; he’s a welfare queen.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Thank god it’s not like that because I have a great job and a great life that was enabled by the freedom that my cars have given me. Y’all can get rid of your cars but I will always have one regardless of the law or society’s opinion. I’d build my own fucking car if you couldn’t buy one even.