• mondoman712@lemmy.mlOP
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    8 months ago

    I think the alternatives should be good enough that raising gas prices isn’t a problem.

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      8 months ago

      Please tell me your plan to collect all of the people spread across half of a state who commute to a central location.

      Mobility enables poor people. Not all poor people live in an idealistic 15-minute city.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t think rural living makes sense if you’re also commuting. Small towns can have good transport links to other nearby towns but I don’t think it makes sense to support those who decide they want to live beyond the practical reach of public services just for the sake of it.

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          8 months ago

          I understand that you’re doing a thought experiment about futuristic utopias but I am talking about the current situation right now and a comment that started this chain.

          People live in rural areas whether you think they should or not and raising gas prices to reduce car travel disproportionately affects those people.

          Now, if there was some way for poor people to get fuel credits or something so that they’re empowered with mobility maybe that would work.

          We also should probably not make farming any harder than it already is.

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            8 months ago

            It’s not a utopia, it’s perfectly possible if we work towards it.

            And I said

            live beyond the practical reach of public services just for the sake of it.

            Specifically to exclude farmers

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        8 months ago

        In 2020 according to statistics 82.66% of all americans lived in cities, not spread across half the state. Urban areas and country side should be developed differently of course.

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        8 months ago

        Mobility enables poor people

        True

        Not all poor people live in an idealistic 15-minute city

        Dude, i live in the fucking state of mexico, we don’t even have rail. And even when we touch the city it’s at least half an hour to get to the city center of Mexico city.

        And yet, u know what makes it possible for me to come work every day to the city? Public transport.

        So yeah, fuck that idea about how it wouldn’t work, put some buses to work out there and even the traffic problem will be lessened since there will be less cars on the road, not to mention how it should be even cheaper since the cost of transportation its gonna be equally split in a bigger ammount of passengers.