Equating machines that are manufactured and supported by a complex supply chain with some sort of individualism has always been some mega brainworms shit
Mountain bikes are the most individualist vehicle although that does not make them bad
To be fair you’re not going to manufacture bicycle parts in your backyard either, but it is a lot easier and more realistic to basically repair or swap everything yourself and there’s way less entirely propietary parts.
Yes but even supply chains from the 1860s could produce plenty of bikes, it ends up being much lower complexity and impact although yeah it’s not the same as walking
To be fair, again, the bicycle they produced in the 1860s is akin in car-terms to like a steam driven one and if you got a skilled metal worker I figure they could do either one. It’s an odd sort of bit of history that we developed the car and the bicycle pretty much simoultaneously
The most individualist vehicle is no vehicle, building environments that require vehicles to function is the most anti-individual of all possible options.
Sure being at the mercy of big inner tube is a far cry from being a subject of the massive system behind cars but the true rugged individualist wouldn’t even depend on shoe manufacturers, they toughen up their feet.
The most individualist vehicle is no vehicle
bluechecks do not have a sense of humor he’s literally a britbong right wing journo.
While at university, Harwood also became the national chair of pro-Brexit campaign group Students for Britain, an arm of the official Brexit campaign organisation Vote Leave.[8][14][15] In 2017, he worked for the American libertarian organisation Students for Liberty.[16] He was a Conservative Party candidate for the East Chesterton ward in the 2018 Cambridge City Council election. In the election, the two Labour candidates were elected.[17] Harwood received 336 votes, and finished in 6th place.[18] Harwood became a reporter for the right-wing political news website Guido Fawkes in July 2018.[8][19]
I had a class with a guy who always wore a fedora, one of those sassy graphic tees, and cargo shorts, with a literal neck beard, who frequently talked about his love for Rand and Ron Paul… and he rode a unicycle between classes. he was like the literal embodiment of the college libertarian lol
infinitesimally
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This is sort of a negative liberty vs positive liberty situation in some ways.
But anyway, in the left image: The state collected taxes to build subsidies for oil & automobile companies. Later, the state can’t afford to maintain and expand the subsidies to meet demand with taxation alone, so the quality of service degrades significantly - in part due to other outstanding liabilities like a neocolonial empire in support of other capital interests - but mostly because of the sprawl. It therefore has to assume large deficits to finance the maintenance alone, which is unsustainable in the global liberal market where money is real. Nothing is left over to pay for any long term initiatives to improve anything else.
In the right image, the state collected taxes and built (at least in this particular street) sustainable infrastructure that isn’t subjected to the stresses of automobile traffic.
There’s nothing free market about either one, it’s just a difference in priorities for how public money was utilized… To subsidize particular industries (whether the individuals involved in planning/building had any awareness of that or not) or to be sustainable.
