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Convenience and Capitalism, what a wild duet!
It's ALWAYS capitalism, people STILL don't get this (I can't blame them they got propagandized into believing capitalism is the holy economy or some stupid shit)
“Just a little more neoliberalism, bro, I swear we’ll usher in an era of prosperity if we just do it harder”
And it’s not even convenient…unless you purposefully destroy existing infrastructure and aggressively promote individualism in your society such that nobody has any other real choice! Walking distance? Never heard of her.
Yeah whats actually convenient is being able to step out your home, jump into the tram, read the newspaper for 15 minutes, jump out and have teleported to work.
And also I can walk 5min to grocery store or 10min to a haircut, I can have a drink and don’t need to spend Uber money to get home, all travel time is the same because there’s no such thing as rush hour on a metro or with a bicycle(actually with the metro it’s faster because it comes more frequently at those times), etc.. It’s all winning, basically.
Well now it's fascism
Fascism is capitalism in decline.
Trains are much more convenient.
This one is fully on capitalism.
Trains are convenient until you want to go somewhere without rails :( which I guess could be solved with more rails...
Cars are convenient until you want to go some place without free parking directly in front of the entrance. (Or so I gather from the whining and complaining that drivers so often do.)
I mean, the answer is in the line right above the question.