CombatWombat@feddit.online to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWe may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop.lloydalter.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up117arrow-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 · 4 days agomessage-square85linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremotionofethre@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoI met a ~26yo girl who told me I wasn’t in the same stage of life as her because I didn’t have a car… By any other capitalistic metric, I was more “advanced” in life… But I didn’t have a car 😱 (comparing money is dumb, just making a point)
minus-squarezip@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI totally get you. I’ve experienced similar! It’s super weird.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 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-up1·2 days agoIt reminds me of horse-riding barbarians.
I met a ~26yo girl who told me I wasn’t in the same stage of life as her because I didn’t have a car…
By any other capitalistic metric, I was more “advanced” in life… But I didn’t have a car 😱 (comparing money is dumb, just making a point)
I totally get you. I’ve experienced similar! It’s super weird.
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.