RE: Did we make a cultural mistake popularizing the car?
December 18, 2018 at 12:05 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2018 at 12:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
UPS uses cars to deliver to people who use their cars to pay for the goods. Those goods (and those vehicles) were made by people who drive to work in cars in a factory that has all of it's goods delivered by cars - repeat ad infinitum.
Distributed production necessitated transport, and the realities of the distribution (not all of them still relevant) won't ever be solved by changing anything about transport. We have to condense our productive space, imo. Less reason to transport means less transportation cost. It may have been impossible to locate our various industries nearer each other before...but that's far less the case now.
Distributed production necessitated transport, and the realities of the distribution (not all of them still relevant) won't ever be solved by changing anything about transport. We have to condense our productive space, imo. Less reason to transport means less transportation cost. It may have been impossible to locate our various industries nearer each other before...but that's far less the case now.
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