If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don’t, but a man can dream though. A man can dream.
Reported as not really being politics, and I could see it as being more !news@lemmy.world or even !business@lemmy.world
But pocket book issues like this impact politics.
“It’s the economy, stupid!” and all that.
Yern idiot
I didn’t report it, I’m stating it WAS reported and the reason why.
My post explains why I didn’t remove it. 😉
It’s good to have a forum to discuss the issue from a political angle. You can wedge politics into everything if you try hard enough but then for other stories, you don’t really have to try at all. This one seems like the latter.
Everything is politics.
The only way you can escape politics is to live alone on an uninhabited planet.
Even then, I’m sure someone would figure out a way to have conflicting ideas that need to be argued out. There’s a reason Tom Hanks invented Wilson (and the real-life stories such concepts are based on), we NEED other people to engage with, to debate with, to argue with, for validation and support and to negotiate with in order for our ideas to sharpen and for our minds to stay stable. Without this, we lose our minds or even die.
So not only is everything politics, we can’t live without it.
I think about this every time I see someone whinging about politics in entertainment.
Ok, except for sportsball
Politics underpins finance at every level
I feel most of the mod decisions are arbitrary, but there’s also a good reason we don’t all just post everything in an “everything” com.
Anyone got a non paywall link.
Disable Javascript for that website and their paywall will disappear
Or use reader mode in your browser.
Archive.is is your friend
Install their Firefox extension (works on mobile too), never have this problem again.
You mean there is a flaw in the capitalistic idea of infinite profit growth. I am shocked.
What if Wall Street failed and collapsed? I feel like that would be good
Every time they face consequences for their actions, we are robbed to save them, so be careful what you wish for
Maybe we should stop passively watching them commit crimes. French style revolution is the only solution.
For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die.
Not long ago I could buy a used van for 5000. Now I had to pay like 13k for a used one after our typical accident caused by another person had an insurance that wouldn’t pay up.
That’s such a shit business going around telling people they’re covered but then in the end not actually covering anything. I get it cars depreciate… Well great, why doesn’t my insurance premium deprecate? I would gladly maintain the same level of payment if it means my car will be replaced. Similarly, if they won’t actually replace my car, they should just tell me…you’re going to need $5000 to make up the difference if you get into accident.
That’s the funny thing about it all: the ruling class couldn’t give less of a shit about the wellbeing of the people. But they care about their companies’ revenue, and that is threatened if people have no money to spend. That is why we need Universal Basic Income in the near future.
UBI is a great idea, but it allows people to take risks. Including the risk of forming a union, protesting in a larger way and so forth. That sort of happened with the Hippies in the US. It was easy to get a job, so people used that to earn some money, quit and enjoy themself for a longer period.
That is why the social safety net is as crappy as it is. Fear is the only way to keep the general population in line.
Cars and Wall Street and the American people for that matter can all go fuck themselves. Can’t we just have free and accessible public transit and walkable cities for fuck sake?
But the stock holders . . …
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can we make city streets public transportation only and resort personal vehicles to the outer parts? Like we dont got trolleys going down our cities’ broad streets/broadways these days, but lets get a shitton of busses goin up and down with no worry of joe in his civic.
This is not a singular issue. That’s still millions who prefer the US to be car centric, and they fight to keep it that way. Just move to Europe
Yern idiot too
So happy mine are paid off.
t.b.f the reporting is more about whether these companies have hidden loans (including possibly loans that other lenders don’t know about), which could have happened within railway companies just as easily as in car companies!
Trump is bankrupting Americans and America so they can install a technocratic dictatorship
Why do we only blame trump?
There’s bi-partisan support for making sure China can’t sell its EVs in the US, even though they cost $15k and have 300km range.
Meanwhile we have dumbasses buying teslas saying “they didn’t get ripped off.”
Of course part of the reason those Chinese EVs only cost 15k is because China heavily subsidized their EV market. Basically they did what the Americans and Europeans didn’t have the guts to do and poured boatloads of government money into a brand new sector to give their companies a leg up while they ramped up. Guess what’s going to happen next?
These companies have all of the knowledge that making multiple generations of EVs brings you, they have all of the tooling already, they can now start expanding into more markets and start making it really difficult for competition to compete because the competition put in only the effort that they had the financial incentive to put into EVs and therefore they’re not ready to compete at all. The rest of the world basically ceded this entire industry to China because politicians were too heavily bought and paid for by the oil companies to do more than a pittance, and now the auto market is about to be heavily shaken up
Can’t we have affordable repairable cars AND reliable public transport? That would sure be nice.
Many places in America at least are just too spread out. But we dont need a super mega duper feed f teenthousand to drive around. Shit like the Slate would be amazing if it could exist (I realize bezos funded it. Still doesn’t keep it from being a bad idea).
Thats why I will argue old cars were undeniably better. You could actually repair them and they weren’t rolling spyware with a subscription.
1990 to about 2014 is the perfect spot for cars. Before that is archaic for most people (i prefer 80s cars myself) and newer than that its just a corpo bot on wheels.
Might I suggest Open Source Repairable Cars, Trains, Trams, Bikes, Bike-Cars, and VTOL’s those would be awesome to get open source alternatives for
Slate EV is open. But watch, no one will buy them.
Good luck finding parts from the 80s though besides pickup trucks since I still lots of those from that era on the road still
Oh there’s a lot of parts for American 80s cars around. And their crude enough you can fab most things to work fine or just get aftermarket if you need to.
Just bring lots of money for gas.
Also, Obama trashed most pre 2000s cars, so Detroit bailouts would work.
Awww. Theyre still not gonna make them one cent less expensive
