• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    11 hours ago

    Losing the drivers license for a month discriminates against the rural population while city folks can use the bus to get to work. Or even a cab if they’re rich enough.

    Rural people got around fine before the automobile. They walked or rode a horse. Nobody needs a car.

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      1 hour ago

      I’ve got a horse but there’s no stables outside my workplace. Walking 50 km to work would take the whole day.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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        22 minutes ago

        You don’t need to live 50km away from where you work. People from before cars would never dream of such an outrageous lifestyle.

        That kind of decadence, traveling 50km twice every day, was enabled by unsustainable technology which is killing the biosphere. We need to stop this kind of wasteful excess, or climate collapse will stop it for us. We can have people living 50km away from work, but that 50km needs to be 50km of railway line. It can’t be an asphalt road, that’s too expensive to the world. The debt is coming due.