"Requires a down payment, finance payments, registration and taxes, dmv lines, insurance, maintenance . . ." Does life not involve responsibilities? How does t

"Requires a down payment, finance payments, registration and taxes, dmv lines, insurance, maintenance . . ." Does life not involve responsibilities? How does this imply OWNERSHIP over oneself? Tally that actual amount of time all of these responsibilities actually involve rather than assume that the rest of us are overwhelmed by your exhaustive list. "traffic tickets, parking tickets, toll roads, parking fees" higher rent to pay for parking, fuel, police surveillance, dealership sales scams, etc." It didn't take long before you had to stretch to find these nearly insurmountable obstacles. "Now you need a better job and probably stuck in traffic more often in service of the car." Did you stop to consider that this better job that wasn't available without a car might be a reason why you also have a higher standard of living and more liberty to spend your newly acquired free time doing what you enjoy? "No wonder rideshare and rentals are taking over" Ever heard of buses, trains, and taxis? It isn't like these things never existed as options that people -- including car owners like yourself -- have used before. "I have a very old car. . ." So does it OWN you? The point of contention here is ownership. Before the car, people may have owned horses. Owning a horse involved a lot of responsibilities as well, but it also provided a service for people. That doesn't imply that the horse owned the owner.