I don’t want to drive slower so I will vote against this.
Jam one thing like through like Healthcare or Federal Rerserve accounts for all, and the feedback loop might find a markedly different equilibrium.
Maybe the majority just prefer SUVs instead. There is a lot more comfort in larger cars. I personally prefer an SUV to a mini van which turns funny in my experience.
But in the city, there are many more people who may not even have a car, or be bothered by reduced speedlimits.
In these cities, we can outvote you.
Speed limits, and the like, are controlled locally.
Just because Marx was in favour of something doesn’t necessarily make it inherently socialist.
Remote villages have lived in communistic systems but have no idea about the concept of communism.
That said, I was asking for an example of the concept of free schooling from before socialism, and I got it :)
America was founded on breaking from traditions to try new ideas (a government for the people by the people), but somewhere along the way y'all stopped innovating and started resisting all change. Redistribution of wealth fits perfectly into "gov for the people by the people". The many benefiting from the work of the many.
Any kind of redistribution would need to be at the full discretion of local governments instead of a federal body. The amount of power our federal government has amassed itself would make the founding fathers roll over in their graves, or pick up their musquets and revolt.
Yeah don’t mention slavery. Everything else was a big second.
And cherry pick some extreme examples.
The idea that simply slowing cars down is best for society at large is a big claim. It might help in some ways, but it will hurt in others.
In an unachievable ideal world instead of a speedometer and speed limits we would have an "energy meter" and energy limits, which would also take into account the mass of your car.
People simply move further out for cheaper bigger houses and drive further.
Is climate change not a thing?
Also, ebikes are awesome alternatives to motor scooters. I've built one for a very low price not too long ago, it was very fun.
All cars were loud and belching unburned hydrocarbons 40 years ago. Comparing motorcycles to modern cars is missing the gains in street life impact that have actually been made.
I really wish the standard penalty for that would be "you lose your motorcycle license for 5+ years and the motorcycle is crushed into a cube before your eyes". Not "here's a 100 EUR fine and you have to undo the modifications, show us that you did it, and then put them back on".
It's completely unnecessary, hard to do accidentally, and a great way for one single person to affect thousands of others in a single day.
Motorcycles are probably the main offenders but some cars, trucks, and even 2-stroke gas scooters can be ridiculously loud. The law should not discriminate.
Slithering around at 40 mph means almost doubling many trip lengths. That's a lot of lifetimes unnecessarily spent on roads.
It might make short trips a few minutes longer, but long trips shorter.
Or travelling to see my sick mother once a month (1200+ mile round trip) or my daughter as often as possible (1600+ mile round trip). Add to that I am on the large side of the equation at over 6'3" tall and near 300 pounds, and getting my v8 powered truck (20+ mpg) away from me will be a challenge.