• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Might also be noted that cars are a class symbol and a means of engaging in conspicuous consumption.

    People who make the most noise about the “freedom” a car affords them are very often people who flout their vehicles a exotic hobbies or luxuries. They are, incidentally, the same folks who denounce bike lanes, bus stops, cross-walks, speed cameras, and parking shortages. Almost as though they don’t value freedom in the abstract at all.