the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
I stopped reading there. This flawed axiom will not have a good argument built upon it.
Reducing the dependencies on cars is a great goal to strive towards, but articles like this don’t feel helpful to that end.
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