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No. Young people always have had no money. It's the nature of being young. Cars are really just trash technology that has made city life worse. Older generati
by trgn 4y ago
No. Young people always have had no money. It's the nature of being young.
Cars are really just trash technology that has made city life worse.
Older generation have an emotional attachment to cars, and project a lot of virtuous attributes onto it (freedom, independence, wealth, ...). Younger generations just do that less. They accurately see what cars are.
The young have that luxury. They're not at that age yet where they need to capitulate to the cult of the car. Once you have children, the thousands of vectors pushing a family in all directions, car life in some burb is the only one that's financially affordable.
It's the other way around. Youth reject cars because cars are objectively shit. As people get older, options dwindle, aspirations get adjusted, and people submit.
- noobermin 4y agoI feel like cars are only good for older people of a certain age, and as healthcare (for now) has gotten better for well-to-do people, they can continue on older than the greatest generation could. But, when they hit 80 or 90 or so, or they get disabled, the car centric cities will turn out to be very inhibiting for older folks, and many end up feeling isolated. It is also a major problem with car centric city planning that isn't as well discussed IMO.
- trgn 4y agoAbsolutely. It's a huge cliff. Old people eventually can't drive, and in car centric places, immediately lose all independence. we're going through it right now in my family. Keep your ears open and you hear it all the time; "grandpa drove into a parked car, not sure if he should still be driving". I plan to retire (finances willing) in a walkable city, for just that reason. Same argument at the other end of age spectrum. American children have no independence, only because cities are dangerous because of cars.