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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 56 points 23 hours ago (15 children)

I was talking to a coworker about how I thought public transit was superior to individual cars, and so we should put a lot more investment into it, and his response was, "You'll have to pry my car keys out of my cold dead hands."

Like, dude, I wasn't even talking about that.

Anyways, my point is that a big thing missing from this is how people often build their identities around their stupid fucking cars.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

People build their identities around their cars because society is making sure that you feel confined without a car.

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah! That and the fact that our society has erased several or most of our ways to communally build identity and shifted us to build identity based on consumption items

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