• grue@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    but if you don’t…

    …then either you’re a farmer or the area you live was built wrong and needs to be fixed.

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      10 months ago

      I’m not a farmer, my nearest grocery store is 8 miles away. It’s rural and the cost of living is extremely cheap. it also snows a ton and often drops to sub zero temps.

      What my solution? How does this get fixed for me?

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        10 months ago

        What my solution? How does this get fixed for me?

        It doesn’t. But that’s okay, because nobody gives a shit about special snowflakes way off the tail end of the bell curve like you – solving the problem for the 80% of everybody else, for whom reasonable solutions do apply, is plenty good enough!

        Demanding that any solution be perfect enough to solve it for literally everyone including you is just bad-faith reactionary bullshit.

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        10 months ago

        Did you know that most people live in cities? About 60% of North America live in what is considered to be a metropolitan area.

        In most of these areas aggressive expansion of public transit is a no brainer.

        It doesn’t have to work everywhere to be a good idea

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          10 months ago

          Bad example that you provided. I do not lease or make payments on my car. I may be on the end of the been curve but you save assume every person ever pays what’s in the articles headlines.

          Using the calculator literally provided in the article you are citing my monthly cost for my car is $120. A lot less than the $1000/month they say as an average.

          I’m also saving way more than that per month in rent by living where I do outside of a town or city.