• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You either lack the creativity to come up with scenarios, or the empathy to understand people have different struggles than you.

    Imagine you’re a mom with five young kids living 20 miles from the nearest store. That’s a real use case in America. How would you handle that without a vehicle that can seat 6 and carry their groceries as well? What’s your answer besides an SUV?

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      6 months ago

      Yeah living in rural mississippi i know folks like that. They dont wanna bring 5 kids to the store, thats a nightmare. Generally a spouse or oldest kid is watching the kids, or youre goin while theyre at school. Going to work is the bigger issue.

      How about, dont have 5 kids, dont live 20 miles from the nearest store, all of these were also personal choices. How about the large majority of people dont have 5 kids and live 20 miles from a store?

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        6 months ago

        How about, dont have 5 kids, dont live 20 miles from the nearest store

        Okay, it’s as I thought. Your solution to not needing an SUV is to need a fuckin time machine. That’s not exactly the workable solution for climate change that we’re hoping for.

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          6 months ago

          Today is going to be the past of 20 years from now. Starting today to solve this problem, in 20 years no one needs an SUV.

          Instead, in 20 years things just get worse.