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The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have news for you. Literally everything about the United States is making people unhappy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A society of inconveniences.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ya inconveniences. Like affordable housing and affordable healthcare. Or affordable anything. Who needs that shit anyway.

Let me go die from cancer cuz of inconveniences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, this is what 40 years of stacking inconveniences looks like. They turn into massive problems.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

do logistics and it takes me sixteen hours to get to work and sixteen hours back to home with lots of driving while at work

only way out is for the United States to become an actual United States that have the same living wages and worker rights in all states, caps on housing and food costs in all states, require same environmental protections across all states, up education standards across all the states to the same levels, upping the funding amount on public transportation inside and out of states

car dependency is centered around where you live as travel is intentionally hobbled by high costs and other barriers because people that are stuck where they are at and dependent are unable to travel to see or share to other people and ways of life thus keeping the old ways going and the populace contained

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But that driver is on the wrong side to be American.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just imagine he's a letter carrier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Seems right because he definitely looks angry enough to be a USPS employee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I just uber if it's rush hour. I'm not driving in all that mess.

[–] skittle07crusher 2 points 3 months ago

Must read (or listen: https://youtu.be/4tcl5JOzDrQ) is Gorz’s Social Ideology of the Motorcar