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Since we live in a somewhat closed ecosystem, you're exchanging freedom now with freedom later with the costs we will pay from the excesses of material luxury.
by 0134340 6y ago
Since we live in a somewhat closed ecosystem, you're exchanging freedom now with freedom later with the costs we will pay from the excesses of material luxury. Until we open up the ecosystem, ie, get off earth or really learn to decrease waste, this "freedom" you speak will eventually come around to imprison us if we're not careful.
- pdonis 6y agoTechnological advances have been steadily decreasing the material costs, not just of cars, but of all forms of freedom. I see no reason why that will not continue to happen in the future. The car I drive today gets about twice the gas mileage of the family car my parents had when I was a teenager, even though it has significantly better performance in every respect; it also weighs about half as much and many of the materials it is made out of can be recycled in ways the materials that old family car was made out of couldn't. For an even better example, the computer I am typing this on has orders of magnitude more processing power, memory, and storage space for significantly less power consumption than the one I had when I was a student many years ago. It also weighs about half as much and is made of more recyclable materials (and yes, I make use of that: there is a computer recycling center in my town where I take old computers).