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Well when the cars were invented did people start living in a dystopia where the car moguls owned mobility itself or did people just got around much faster and
by diskcat 11y ago
Well when the cars were invented did people start living in a dystopia where the car moguls owned mobility itself or did people just got around much faster and had better lives in general.
- txdv 11y agohorses have had a pretty rough run http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/hsp/soaiv_07_ch10.pdf http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/hsp/soaiv_07_ch10.p...
- TulliusCicero 11y agoIt was mixed. People got around faster and stuff was cheaper. On the other hand, we got fat and dependent on cars, which is particularly bad for the poor (since cars are inherently expensive), and for kids' independence. That's why you're seeing many metro areas starting to prioritize walking, biking, and transit. On balance the development of cars was good, obviously, but let's not kid ourselves, the downsides were significant.
- davidiach 11y agoI'm not sure if it is an established fact that people got fat because cars came along (before cars there were carriages). I'd rather bet that diet is the culprit.
- TulliusCicero 11y agoProbably both, but I think they've shown at least a correlation between car commute time and obesity.
- seren 11y agoIf we look at agriculture mechanization, we went from 80% of the population to 5% to feed everyone. While this is good for everyone, I don't think farmers are living some sort of utopia. Rather most of them are indebted for decades to pay for their complex equipment. I believe the introduction of robot will follow a similar pattern, some industry will see their number of employee reduced drastically but they won't necessarily increase their margin. The customer will likely win. The thing is that people who were employed in farms moved to factory. Nowadays I don't know where people who lost their job to robots will move.
- galfarragem 11y agoAs before, people will move to the new world. This time it is called Mars.
- lbebber 11y agoThere were still plenty of jobs that could only be done by humans though. We might be reaching a point where there will be very few.