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What's very bad, that people have the freedom to use personal transportation? Would you rather see us on a bus or something?
by jiofj 3y ago
What's very bad, that people have the freedom to use personal transportation? Would you rather see us on a bus or something?
- ceejayoz 3y ago> What's very bad, that people have the freedom to use personal transportation? "Sometimes the things you do impact other people" is something we learn in very early childhood. > Would you rather see us on a bus or something? Yes?
- cooper_ganglia 3y ago“Just give up individual transportation and hop on the cattle truck!” isn’t exactly what I imagine when I think of what a decent future looks like. It’s very “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll like it” energy.
- ceejayoz 3y agoVisit somewhere with an effective public transportation system like the Netherlands or Switzerland to expand your imagination a little bit. "You'll own nothing, and you won't like it" is a whole bunch of folks' future if we continue to pretend our decisions don't have externalities.
- anigbrowl 3y agoI have a feeling you like to talk about the tragedy of the commons when it's something you don't have a personal stake in.
- throwaway290 3y agoElect a government that can provide better buses than cattle trucks. Like in developed countries.
- thefurdrake 3y agoIt's very "You'll think about the consequences of your actions if everyone else also does the same actions, and you'll like it" Kantian energy, you mean. Or maybe, "You'll stop engaging in activities that objectively harm those around you, and you'll like it". Just some alternate phrases for you to explore placing between quotes.
- TinyRick 3y agoWhat's very bad is that we have an ongoing tragedy of the commons in the form of global climate change caused by human activity. What's even worse is that we know this, yet are not changing our society to alleviate the effects of our unsustainable carbon usage.
- hermitcrab 3y ago"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
- jiofj 3y ago[flagged]
- throwaway290 3y agoYou may be interested to check out PR put out by the actual commissars, aka Soviet Union communist party about how "everybody will be able to use a car in the bright communist future". This was just before they bulldozed a few historical Eastern European city centres in favor of multi lane roads and parking lots.
- uoaei 3y agoSounds like you don't actually put much thought into these things, based on your hilariously off-base responses.
- thefurdrake 3y agoReally? Care to share with us some similar quotes of commissar origin? Super curious :)
- hedora 3y agoConstruction + buildings generate about 2x more CO2 per year than cars. If we want to maintain our exponential increase of CO2 emissions in the face of EV adoption, we need to get people to tear out and replace existing construction. One way to do that is to rapidly build up low-cost, low-efficiency housing near bus and train lines.