The prices of cars have “skyrocketed” because the price is now closer to what they actually cost. Meaning, less is being externalized.
Cars are inequality-creators because the drivers offload the cost to everyone, including those who don’t drive. Car centric decisions, air pollution, interstates and freeways, parking lots.
It’s very much akin to tobacco. Tobacco used to be cheap - when the tobacco wouldn’t pay for your addiction, or your COPD, or your eventual death. Now they do - a tiny bit - and tobacco is expensive.
>The prices of cars have “skyrocketed” because the price is now closer to what they actually cost. Meaning, less is being externalized.
This is false. There are no “externalities” that are now getting paid. You don’t pay for the right to drive upfront, you already have a permit for that, and that permit is what pays for road maintenance, etc. Maybe the current price is not fair, but that permit hasn’t increased in price. The reality is that Europe let all manufacturers buy one another so they don't have to compete anymore. So they can do whatever they want with prices.
>Cars are inequality-creators because the drivers offload the cost to everyone, including those who don’t drive.
Which wasn't a problem when everybody could afford to drive before Europe ruined everything.
const_cast|10 months ago
Cars are inequality-creators because the drivers offload the cost to everyone, including those who don’t drive. Car centric decisions, air pollution, interstates and freeways, parking lots.
It’s very much akin to tobacco. Tobacco used to be cheap - when the tobacco wouldn’t pay for your addiction, or your COPD, or your eventual death. Now they do - a tiny bit - and tobacco is expensive.
bslalwn|10 months ago
This is false. There are no “externalities” that are now getting paid. You don’t pay for the right to drive upfront, you already have a permit for that, and that permit is what pays for road maintenance, etc. Maybe the current price is not fair, but that permit hasn’t increased in price. The reality is that Europe let all manufacturers buy one another so they don't have to compete anymore. So they can do whatever they want with prices.
>Cars are inequality-creators because the drivers offload the cost to everyone, including those who don’t drive.
Which wasn't a problem when everybody could afford to drive before Europe ruined everything.