> Have you considered that there are people that actually like cars and find them convenient and useful? Cars and the highway system completely changed the cour

> Have you considered that there are people that actually like cars and find them convenient and useful? Cars and the highway system completely changed the course of commerce in this country. Cars would have been wildly successful without marketing, but the deliberate marketing efforts of car companies significantly amped up that demand and pushed us into being a society that is unheathily dependant on these amazing machines. > this idea that a bunch of moustache-twirling executives sat in a board room figuring out how to force cars on people is a bit much. This "idea" is strongly backed up by the historic record, so if this seems like "too much" you really need to recalibrate your intuitions with reality.