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[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm proud of you for asking a difficult question that you won't get a satisfying answer to.

Its almost like asking "why doesnt everyone share cars?" You probably aren't using one all the time, they're expensive to maintain, why not distribute the load to society and just have fleets of cars you borrow whenever you need one? Like a vehicle library.

Some people will love this idea, it would work very well for them. Some people will hate this idea and rail about how its the death of freedom and personal choice. And some will very rightly wonder "why are we talking about cars? Trains solve this problem 1000x better!"

Privately owned business is a problem, and a major component of the problem is that petite bourgeoisie small business owners believe they're part of the broader "business class" which doesn't exist. They're exploited smallholders who serve the interests of the truly rich and powerful by ideologically aligning with them against workers, whom they universally believe are too stupid, selfish, and myopic to properly make decisions for themselves or anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

why not distribute the load to society and just have fleets of cars you borrow whenever you need one? Like a vehicle library.

There are companies that do this. Zipcar is one I’ve used for short-term car rentals to go get groceries while I was in college.