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by brunospars
476 days ago
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We've had technology for 150 years now and much has been positive. Consumers could be encouraged to favor quality , responsiveness & longevity . Cars & appliances have regressed into unreliable, overstimulated and unpresonsive disasters. Much of this is how they are marketed and sold. Cars seem flashy until you own it for a few months . It's up to consumers to make a choice. |
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The author argues for "a restoration of choice: a campaign to ensure analogue alternatives to digital tools."
If you had a viable choice besides a car (like a combination of mass transit, walking, and bike), would you choose it?
But of course most people in the US cannot make that choice because where they live was, over the last century, designed around cars, and often eliminated choices which were present.
Had those choices remained, there would be more pressure on car manufacturers to build better cars.
Consumers alone aren't going to transform cities into a walkable place.