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It’s because the ruling class’ actual objective was arresting mobility and social interaction and potential for organizing.

It bothers me sometimes that people seem to simply ignore, tolerate, and make excuses for the abuses like some kind of abused wife.

While many people not only bend over backwards to curtail their life in a belief of salvation, the same ruling class that has psychologically abused a certain segment of the population into their new form of religion, jet around in private planes between several of their mansions and from one energy intensive event to another to discuss how the peasants should not be able to use energy As they pile the wealth of the working people who produce the value.

I wish more people had an understanding that we are sliding back into an aristocratic type system by way of a typical trap pattern. Being reliant on electricity and public transportation means you are totally dependent on and can be totally controlled by the ruling class. Have you exalted the virtues of your rulers sufficiently today, peasant? Maybe you do not get to charger your bike and definitely do not get to ride the public transportation system.

People are not shifting away from anything, they’re being herded into a trap and into a system of dependence, immobility, and control.

The cool thing about train tracks is that they're still there even after the cake has been eaten.

Your analysis is interesting but the material condition improvement of building public transit supersedes it, and furthermore, the existence of public transit doesn't prevent any form of revolution. Unless we all have jeeps and dirtbikes, the government can still stop movement by dropping bollards onto highways. Done.

So I don't think building public transit furthers the enslavement of the working class, rather the opposite, it's an example of us wrestling something we need from a bourgeois that really couldn't care less, cause as you say they'll just take a helicopter.

>Maybe you do not get to charger your bike

Well, that's a bike. It has pedals.

I ran out of battery more than once when testing the calibration of the battery gauge. And I could literally cycle back home. I don't even used the electrical assistance on most of my trips. It's there, but you use it when you want.

It's better than a car, which dependent on fuel. Petrol has to be provided by what you call "the ruling class". (unless you dig yourself in the desert)

Also, politicians who wanted to get more powerful (like Thacher) used to just get rid of the public transportation and services. Because of strikes. As people are heavily reliant on the public transportation in here, strikes are a powerful political tool against the "aristocratic type system".

Lastly, I still have a car. I use it when I feel like using it, or to go on trips to burn a part of the money I saved after using a bike.

You describe persons who are dependent on cars.

But maybe this petrol-availability crisis can teach us to no longer be dependent on petrol. Cheap and easily available oil is over.

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