Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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This logic classifies nearly every product of human effort as inherently unjust. It basically demands a world of perfect abundance where every desire is instantly available to either everyone - or no one - while completely ignoring the reality of time and limited resources.
Scarcity isn't oppression.
Right, or in other words "physical reality is full of natural and insurmountable inequalities." But cars are a human invention, which makes them a mechanism of inequality - that's to say, something where went out of our way to "do work" to de-flatten the playing field. The cars are introducing a new inequality to human society.
And cars are also less efficient (in terms of space and material and fuel usage) than other modes of transport - trains, buses, bikes and walking. So of course, to someone who cannot afford cars, they will wonder if car dependent infrastructure was created and is maintained primarily to seperate those who can pay and those sho must stay (stay put). The expectation that everyone will have a car might mean that the transportless fellow has no access to pubic transport, because his local government decided they shouldn't fund any. This is bad for the safety of children and the disabled, as well as the poor's access to work.