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Did we make a cultural mistake popularizing the car?
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RE: Did we make a cultural mistake popularizing the car?
(December 17, 2018 at 10:41 pm)Aegon Wrote: Do you think we made a mistake building around car usage, and not establishing communities with expanded public transportation and walkability? Streetcars, trains, subways... did we fuck up a century ago? I think we might have. Cars suck.



One could similarly argue we made a cultural mistake adopting fire.

But if progress itself is a positive good than arguing ex post whether a better path not visible a priori should have been taken is an barren exercise.
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Did we make a cultural mistake popularizing the car? - by Aegon - December 17, 2018 at 10:41 pm
RE: Did we make a cultural mistake popularizing the car? - by Anomalocaris - December 18, 2018 at 11:31 am



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