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Have any of you tried getting 3 kids around town with public transport? 10 minutes of kids songs in the car = 45 minutes of screaming and accusatory stares in the bus.
This woman clearly has one aggressively neurotypical child. Not 3 neurodivergent ones.
Probably. What are examples?
What?
Have you tried bringing your kids up properly 😂
Have you tried sucking my buttery grundle?
This idea might be just crazy enough... TO GET US ALL KILLED!
That would require people voting for parties that want that.
Because planned economies are a terrible idea. We would be doing this efficiently and organically if the demand for bikes and public transportation was higher and the demand for cars was lower.
Why don’t we uproot all our vegetable crops and grow cherry trees? Cherries are delicious so this is obviously a great idea!
The only reason you have food on your plate is because economies adjust incrementally from the ground up, not all at once from the top down.
If you uproot an old failing oak without plans to plant something in its absence, you’ll be left with a big hole and no shade.
Edit: Maybe I’m agreeing with some of what was said and I’m misunderstood. Either way, I agree with understanding demand as it relates to a planned economy.
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Because people like cars. So they buy cars.
I love playing gran turismo, I love porsche, doesn't mean I would buy a 1 ton car
So, you love cars and some culturally orbiting aspects of it, but you don’t like the application of it?
It just feels like everyone’s societal attachment to cars is a little more nuanced than “let’s get rid of them all” then, yeah?
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