It infringes on what many in the US see as a basic human right: the ability to own and drive a car.
That Stockholm Syndrome is so wild to me - the car culture was foisted onto Americans. Even if you expose them to information about how this came to be, they still insist that driving back and forth 1+ hours every weekday from tract housing to the city for a job, with no truly viable public transit, is the peak of freedom and prosperity. And they have to spend lots of time, energy and money (and toxic inputs) into a lawn in many cases, too, mandated by HOAs. Eating up lots of their free time…
If you ever engage with some of these people that are so entrenched in their thinking about this, they’ll act like the only other offering is some kind of WEF-ian “you’ll own nothing and be happy”, as if there is nothing else on the table but those two options - suburbian hellscape that requires a car to do anything at all, or…some kind of dystopian thing that WEF is accused of wanting to impose.
That Stockholm Syndrome is so wild to me - the car culture was foisted onto Americans. Even if you expose them to information about how this came to be, they still insist that driving back and forth 1+ hours every weekday from tract housing to the city for a job, with no truly viable public transit, is the peak of freedom and prosperity. And they have to spend lots of time, energy and money (and toxic inputs) into a lawn in many cases, too, mandated by HOAs. Eating up lots of their free time…
If you ever engage with some of these people that are so entrenched in their thinking about this, they’ll act like the only other offering is some kind of WEF-ian “you’ll own nothing and be happy”, as if there is nothing else on the table but those two options - suburbian hellscape that requires a car to do anything at all, or…some kind of dystopian thing that WEF is accused of wanting to impose.