• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Sarcasm is meant to drive introspection. My point was that, in your wide reaching claim of “blame everyone”, YOU include the minimum wage worker with no options. In fact, I’d argue that most Americans have no reasonable option to cars. I’d also argue that this is by design and mostly influenced by oil producing companies and the politicians they have bought.

    But if you think that we can solve this crisis by blaming people with no options, then please help me understand how that works.

    • bluGill@kbin.social
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      5 months ago

      People have no options because everyone collectively hasn’t created them. Sure a few people vote for transit, bike lanes and the like, but not many. (and the poor are not better than anyone else at this) . There are options - you can move closer to work, get a different job that is closer to where you live, get a bike, carpool, ride transit… Those all bad options for most people but they exist and so they choose them.