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You must like in a country or downtown area with good public transport. Go outside the main cities in America and you're stranded without your own car.
Tbf there's a pretty good chance their entire country is the size of one of our states. The server suggests Netherlands which is like half the size of West Virginia, for example.
Yeah, I figured. Unfortunately the entire world isn't as densely populated as Amsterdam, so public transit of that level isn't always possible. For instance, NL, the entire country, is 1/2 the size of WV the state alone. And the pop of NL is 17,722,333, and the pop of WV is 1,769,979. So to reiterate, your country of 17 million people is smaller in area than one of our states containing 1 million people.
Maybe try leaving your safe little bubble occasionally.
You ever been to West Virginia?
The thing you're still failing to realize is that most of America is comparatively rural, and the big cities do have subways, busses, elevated train lines, etc. And we do have amtrak, and people do use it, but it's not feasible for most of the country to rely on trains for transport. The town my grandma lives in has 5,000 people (if that), no trains beyond freight, no busses, no cab drivers, uber sometimes, only if Big Steve is working right now and he likes to go up to the "city" nearby (not a city like Bos, NYC, Amsterdam, more like idk some small city in Albania lol) for bowling on fridays, so good luck.
I literally already said that we have trains in our densely populated metropolitan areas where it makes sense to do so already, but most of the country isn't those 10 cities.
As fun as talking in circles is I'm going to respectfully walk away from this thread now. Have fun in Italy, eat something cheesy for me.
Have you seen the stock price? I wouldn't say it's wasteful at all. I'd say it's achieving exactly what it's set out to do.