• thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Nobody should be forced to live in a car in the first place though. That’s a separate problem altogether from transit, which could be solved with reform to labour rights and housing provision.

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      10 months ago

      yes, it would be nice if this were not the shape of the world we lived in
      where vacant homes are piggybank tokens for foreign billionaires and their real estate holdings firms while families are left vagrant on the street.
      where all the currency liquidity of our market has pooled at the top like a brain hemorrhage and our entire economy goes through seizure after seizure as we watch pieces of it die.
      where basic human rights and necessities for life are commoditized, gatekept, and sold at a premium, to the extent that some people can’t afford to live

      but unfortunately, one must make do with the tools one can access…

      Metaphorically speaking, our civilization is flooded and we are traped underwater.
      It is indeed a problem that we are trapped underwater.
      People are drowning every day.

      Yes, no one should have to need SCUBA gear.
      Yes, it sucks that we’ve built our entire infrastructure around facilitating the use of SCUBA gear.
      Let us not mislead ourselves, however, into thinking that criticism of SCUBA gear would ever change the fact that we are trapped underwater,
      or that someone would be any less likely to drown down here if we took their SCUBA gear away.