>but that just means people (and jobs) are reallocated to more useful stuff. No one argues that bullshit is constantly being iterated on. But cars are bullshit

>but that just means people (and jobs) are reallocated to more useful stuff. No one argues that bullshit is constantly being iterated on. But cars are bullshit - i.e. we lived for a long time without them, and they needed to be advertised to take hold. Now simply having a car is entrenched bullshit, and the cutting edge is convincing people to buy expensive ones. You don't need a car, but cars are necessary to facilitate the American Dream, also sold to us by advertising in the 40s/50s, of living in suburbs. Home ownership and the things that go with it are equally bullshit. One of the first documented shifts in public opinion orchestrated by a PR firm is America's belief that roads are for cars instead of people.