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> This future sounds great until you consider what it really means to let “someone else” become the arbiter of you being able to get around. Assuming we're dis
by simondotau 4y ago
> This future sounds great until you consider what it really means to let “someone else” become the arbiter of you being able to get around.
Assuming we're discounting things like bicycles, family member's vehicles and company-owned vehicles, this is present day reality for the overwhelming majority of people on this planet.
(It's also debatable whether a car truly eliminates other people from being an arbiter of "being able to get around" if you are still reliant on a fossil fuel supply chain. By comparison an EV charged with a domestic solar array would probably more liberating.)
- cwalv 4y ago> By comparison an EV charged with a domestic solar array would probably more liberating By comparison, yes. But where are you going to go, or what are you going to do, that isn't dependent on other ppl in some way? I like the idea of being self-supporting as much as anyone, but that doesn't change the fact that we're all interdependent in modern society.
- simondotau 4y agoPrecisely my point, though I didn’t say it precisely. The notion that we’re ever not dependant on the actions of other people is utterly fictitious.