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Cows are not making land scarce and cars could be said to increase the supply of land because they allow you to access more of it.
by towaway15463 4y ago
Cows are not making land scarce and cars could be said to increase the supply of land because they allow you to access more of it.
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoCars are one of many ways to increase land supply and probably the least resource and fiscally efficient way to do it. If we want to make mobility and housing cheaper then we need to make these both more efficient. Car dependency is expensive, but changing it is one of the many things we need to do before we can become a post-scarcity society.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoCars suffer from the same problem as space rockets - the tyranny of the load/thrust equation. For space rockets, the further you want to go, the more fuel you must carry, but all that fuel weighs something until burned, so you need yet more fuel just to launch the other fuel into space. So as your rocket's range increases, the needed fuel to reach that range grows at least polynomially. For cars, having one enables you to drive to places... but those places need gas stations and parking. The more cars there are, the greater the proportion of land dedicated to roads, refueling and parking. But then there's less space for the places you'd actually want to go, pushing them further. And then you need more gas stations and parking to get that far. And then there's less space again. Repeat ad infinitum.