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Do we seriously spend 1 thousand billion dollars per year personally getting our asses around with cars after it's all said and done? Holy crap. That's more t
by eutropia 9y ago
Do we seriously spend 1 thousand billion dollars per year personally getting our asses around with cars after it's all said and done?
Holy crap. That's more than 5% of GDP.
- ghaff 9y agoI haven't checked the numbers but it doesn't surprise me. A car is the most expensive or second most expensive asset that most people own. (And/or they spend a lot of money on taxi/Uber/Lyft/etc.) And most people spend a decent chunk of their days getting from Point A to Point B. Only some of that is commuting. The cost of not being a subsistence farmer, I suppose. (Somewhat joking, but a big part of what makes modern civilization possible is mobility and a lot of that requires cars. In some situations, they're less important but they're still common pretty much anywhere.)
- stcredzero 9y agoShoe leather wasn't cheap in the middle ages, and leather soles used to wear out all of the time. Transport is something people are willing to pay for.