Right-libertarian “think-tank” founded by Charles Koch of the Koch Brothers (unfortunately still living).
Eating a home-made dinner is less convenient than eating the protein bars from Snowpiercer, less euphoric than MDMA and requires more groceries than either one.
I want to hit the car of whoever wrote this article with a train.
Hear me out: instead of walls or guillotines, ghouls get the rail-pillow. It’s really efficient, easily scalable (virtually infinitely), you don’t need to build especialized infraestructure for the thing, many people can enjoy and participate in the process via getting on the chop-chop-choo-choo, and it’s really on brand.
If you read the linked article , this guy want’s to replace every arterial road in the United States with a freeway
but ahem sir did you consider the utility of all the added enjoyment from driving a car or flying a private plane?
The joy of being caged in a two ton metal shit going at 100 km/h surrounded of dozens of two ton metal cages going even faster, all of them controlled by intoxicated and stressed monkeys, a very comfy thing to do yes.
I do like driving, like across a natural place or rural zone, dirt road or freeway, but not fucking commuting.
I think the utility argument is also affected by the ‘negative utility’ of the world that capital creates. An example for the sake of argument: you would want a car in a cyberpunk dystopia because maybe everyone is out to kill you on public transport. A less extreme example is like, you need that enjoyable product even worse now because your daily life is so atomized and alienated.
Hate for public mass transit is just hate for the poor.
Except for buses that have too many stops, god I hate them
