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[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I live in rural Washington state. The nearest bus station from where I work is a two mile walk. The nearest bus station from where I live is a three mile walk. I live twenty miles from where I work. Biking and Bussing simply aren't feasible.

I like bikes and busses. We don't need bikes and busses to solve this problem, we need telecommuting and walkable communities.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I dont see how you can be so obtuse.

If gas was just $6/hr then there would be a ton of demand for busses. So the bus routes would expand to all the people in your area. And it would be easy to fund because the rich would be subsidizing it.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They'd rather just leave you to suffer in poverty paying $6/gal, neither telecommuting nor busses.

Market solutions don't work. We need to do this by force.

[–] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wdym, via the law of the maximums au bon Robespierre?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Via cybernetics. We have the computing power to abolish the market.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You started this chain claiming an unreasonable $20 minimum.
Now you're calling people obtuse? Lmao

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah we should definitely be at $20 by now. Carbon taxing should have started increasing in the 1980s