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I'd love to know if long term earnings are affected. I know a bunch of people who can't drive and it really seems to restrict what you can do in life.

• bossyTeacher 3y ago
  > I know a bunch of people who can't drive and it really seems to restrict what you can do in life I would imagine that you are a US citizen. Car dependency is more of an American problem imo. The fact that you depend (yes, dependency not power or freedom) on an expensive piece of metal to go anywhere is crazy. Imagine if medieval peasants had to have a horse to go anywhere from work to the food market
  • rr808 3y ago
    I am both American and EU citizen. Yes US is more car dependent but its the same everywhere. My mother can't drive and lives rurally, she rarely gets to visit her relatives unless someone drives her. > Imagine if medieval peasants had to have a horse to go anywhere from work to the food market Not sure where you're going with this. 2 of my grandfathers were farmers and they had horses to work the farm and deliver goods.
    • bossyTeacher 3y ago
      If you live in a rural area, it's understandable but if you live in a city it's not great. Re: where I am going to this, I already stated my point. Dependency on your own piece of metal for transportation purposes is shocking. Ideally, driving would be a choice and you would always have public transportation as a backup. But if as a society, you reach a point where not owning a piece of metal restricts your activities in your area, it sounds like an awful issue with serious socioeconomic implications.
• Symbiote 3y ago
  It's not necessary to drive at age 16 though, learning by the end of college should be more-or-less equivalent.