The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found
I have news for you. Literally everything about the United States is making people unhappy.
But that driver is on the wrong side to be American.
Everything is about money in this fucking country. Every single decision the government makes HAS to revolve around profit and is powered by bribes. We are a dry pie that the shareholders are trying to squeeze even drier. We will never be like the rest of the world until we get money out of politics. Nothing will ever get done. Only what the rich wants done. . Fuck this country.
Not everything; some things are about racism. Suburban sprawl and car dependency owe a lot to white flight to suburbs with racial covenants and racist urban-planning decisions like Robert Moses making overpasses on roads to suburbs too low for buses to keep the minorities contained in the ghettos. The idea of retreating to defensible space (in a suburban cul-de-sac or a personal car) also raises the question of who one is expecting to defend against.
The stratification of society is also about money. You need to have an underclass to scare and motivate the workforce.
“see, if you don’t slave your ass day and night, there are those who are desperate to work double your work for half the wage”. Again, fuck this country and on top of that, fuck capitalism.
