Carbrain is pretty unpolitical in the sense that for many people it is the axiom and then you just work backwards from there, according to your politics, to justify it.
Conservatives will harp on about not having to sit next so smelly strangers on public transpoirt, liberals will harp on about how if car bad how come so many car???. Apart from about 100 guys worldwide the libertarians will harp on about freedom to kill other people and the leftists mostly get there on grounds of rent prices, meaning everybody who doesn’t need a car for transportation is the bourgeoisie and needs to be shot to ensure more roadspace for the proletarian individual automobile
everybody who doesn’t need a car for transportation is the bourgeoisie and needs to be shot to ensure more roadspace for the proletarian individual automobile
Depending on the country this is sort of true, because many workplaces require a full licence to even be considered for work.
But it’s also missing a few important things. What about disabled people? People who can’t afford lessons or even the tests? People with no support network (no family, friends to teach them to drive)?
There are many such cases of these, even here on hexbear, we have users in these situations. I was one of them for a period of my life and it fucking sucks, socially it’s embarrassing to admit you can’t drive, and professionally? It limits your options so much, even in cases where it shouldn’t.
Carbrain is awful.
Depending on the country this is sort of true, because many workplaces require a full licence to even be considered for work.
love to be the homless bourgeoisie
Point begin even this argument among class lines always ignores the low end of the working class who do not have cars because those cost a decent amount of money
The only somewhat effective way of countering carbrain is by travelling to different countries, and experiencing decent public transit for the first time. Still, there are people who do see it and are stuck at the idea that it just can’t be implemented in their own country.
I almost lost my mind once when someone was telling me that a train is less scalable than a car. Like dude, do you think paved roads just spontaneously burst out of the ground?
Literally had a conversation with a guy who assumed that all roads were just paved over old ‘naturally made’ wagon trails, and I had to explain to him that for most American parceling, the roads usually came first, then the government parceled the lands, which is why areas without roads are usually unparceled, and that most American cities were created by proximity to either trains, harbors or highways. It genuinely escapes people that you don’t build infrastructure around development, you develop around infrastructure.
