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The average voter doesn’t understand the concept of externalities.
The average voter also can’t see a long term perspective but only lives in the present, and can’t see other people’s perspectives but only their own.
Not only can they not see externalities like climate change, they can’t see long term issues like climate change and they can’t see anyone wanting to do anything differently from themselves.
They also can’t see long term issues like traffic keeps getting worse and getting a few hundred people off rhe road at rush hour would actually be fucking awesome
A critical amount of voters is not supposed to understand or realise the concept of externalities.
Very little of the cost in that comic is external. People seem to ignore what owning a car costs
i’m currently living on sweden’s basic “i literally have no other option” welfare which is ~$450 per month, and through the arcane magic of NOT FUCKING SPENDING MY MONEY ON USELESS SHIT i’m able to quite easily have 50€ to spare at the end of the month while living comfortably.
it’s existentially horrifying how bad the vast majority of people are with money.
And don’t forget healthcare costs. Treating traffic accident victims costs huge amounts of money.
Only if you have some evil socialist public healthcare. Privatization means you can charge the victims for the impact of shitty and unsafe infrastructure
Surprise, emergency rooms are often subsidized when people are treated and discharged without the ability to pay. It was one of the rationals for why ACA was cost saving.
Look at all the GDP that cars create! Don’t you want GDP?!
Look at all the GDP cars cripple! Government welfare for oil companies (paid for by our taxes), growing land hindered by asphalt roads everywhere, pollution…
Great cartoon. Sad, though: This leaves out the massive tax credits & other government shell outs to the oil companies.
The cartoon is over 85% text. Not good. The value in cartoons is the ability to convey ideas visually. This is not a great cartoon.
I’d say it’s more of an infographic, or a rant in cartoon form.
In those contexts it’s well-presented.
Fine. Great info-toon.
I went on the LA subway as a tourist, my first time in the USA. It was terrifying. It was also way too cheap, id happily pay 3x the price for it to be less terrifying
Too cheap? Public transit should be free.
Offer to pay more taxes instead or defund stuff like the military.
In USA, isn’t tax considered an affront to freedom?
The LA public transport is in a death spiral because the taxpayers dont see a need for it because they all have cars. So funding gets directed elsewhere. But they want to people to not have the excuse “oh, it’s too expensive” for not using it, so they make the fare super cheap.
Therefore, it’s caught between hardly any funding and also hardly any income
My normal bike should be subsidized
i maintain that basic bikes should be literally free, like bikeshare systems except you just place bikes all over the place and people just grab the closest one when needed.
