CombatWombat@feddit.online to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoWe may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop.lloydalter.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square134linkfedilinkarrow-up1537arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1529arrow-down1external-linkWe may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop.lloydalter.substack.comCombatWombat@feddit.online to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square134linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 days agoUnfortunately, in american culture, to a lot of people “having a car” means “being grown up” and “not having a car” means “not being grown up.” It’s a childish mentality really, and indicates that that 26 year old hadn’t done any “growing up” in approximately a decade.
minus-squareVeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.vglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoIt reminds me of horse-riding barbarians.
Unfortunately, in american culture, to a lot of people “having a car” means “being grown up” and “not having a car” means “not being grown up.”
It’s a childish mentality really, and indicates that that 26 year old hadn’t done any “growing up” in approximately a decade.
It reminds me of horse-riding barbarians.