when I was young, I hated cars bc of how much environmental damage they cause- through both operation of AND construction of.
I never wanted a car, but when I got older i began to understand WHY everybody wanted or had a car- in many places, it's not just unsafe but completely infeasible to travel to necessary places (doctor, food, work, etc) without having a vehicle of some kind. some places are so far from anywhere useful that not even a bicycle is good enough.
then I learned about the actual founding of the automotive industry and all the ways Ford and his cohorts manipulated the government and average people to make roads in the United States a CARS ONLY place.
It's bullshit and it made/still enrages me to think that an ENTIRE industry was founded and propped up by the wealthy elite to force us to buy cars, to force us out of OUR streets, to DESTROY the land of our ancestors with paved trash and then dare charge us to travel across it while at the same time using the bare minimum of taxes to repair and maintain those roads.
fuck the government
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