• Mac@mander.xyz
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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.

    • mondoman712@lemmy.mlOP
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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