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  • Airport_Bar@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldask patrick
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    1 year ago

    There’s an few distinctions about American culture as it relates to car culture.

    • America had/has a lot of land

    • Much of this is/was vastly underdeveloped right outside of urban hubs, unlike Europe/related which benefits from a tighter interconnected network of cities that more immediately benefit from mass transit systems

    • In the US post-WWII middle class and privileged were often sold an idea of peaceful suburban lifestyles away from urbanized areas

    • Car manufacturers marketed this successfully as a way to encourage families away from city life and thus build a more solid reliance on their vehicles

    • City planning was therefore often built around a suburban-city sprawl rather than a cohesive urban community designed around efficiency



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    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.



  • Yea for sure, however if they went from a user paying from $5 into $10, and then later $10 to now $20, now they just need 1 user for the price of many.

    Also, despite a short-term wave of rage-drops from their service, they know they’ll eventually get a new wave of users later on who never knew anything different and the cycle continues.

    Of course they do this incrementally so they don’t lose out too much of their base, but all of the services are going up. It’s going to continue to happen and probably quicker than some people realize. It’s happening everywhere