(November 29, 2013 at 8:45 pm)Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote: Do you not you think that may have been judged for saying that people shouldn't have cars, whilst you lived in a van?
First off I'm not saying that people shouldn't have cars. I think some people are getting a little carried away with their interpretation of what I'm saying. But we definitely could do with a lot less cars. That's basically what I'm saying, we need to do with less of everything. I don't think that having a van is excessive if you have two people and a dog living in it. But having a SVU that you never take off the freeway is totally excessive. Once people have attained a certain level of comfort everything else is just superfluous.
People need to reassess what they think they need. I hear all the time on here how people need so and so comforts. Once people have the basics, whether or not that includes a car, everything else is just extra. That's why even though I'm something of a hippy, the argument of wealth transfer that I see on here all the time is a terrible one. People in this country are having their basic needs more than met. Trying to take money from the rich is just another form of greed.