“There are no urgent, legit needs that make these things necessary or acceptable.”
—Americans alone spend more than 70,000,000,000 hours each year driving.
-On average, not counting commercial drivers, each American spends over 13 hours a week driving, or one third of a full time job.
-Over 20% of the American labor force is primarily employed driving a commercial vehicle.
We are talking about a collective waste of human time and effort of 350,000 lifetimes per year in the U.S. alone.
We are talking about waste of collective labor enough to totally rebuild the physical environment: laying train tracks, building housing, raising flood walls, building pads for rockets and nuclear reactors.
We are talking about centuries of time worth of cognitive capacity to be used as leisure for making art, music, literature. Or simply bonding with families and strengthening our communities.
If that’s not a pressing need I don’t know what is.
—Americans alone spend more than 70,000,000,000 hours each year driving.
-On average, not counting commercial drivers, each American spends over 13 hours a week driving, or one third of a full time job.
-Over 20% of the American labor force is primarily employed driving a commercial vehicle.
We are talking about a collective waste of human time and effort of 350,000 lifetimes per year in the U.S. alone.
We are talking about waste of collective labor enough to totally rebuild the physical environment: laying train tracks, building housing, raising flood walls, building pads for rockets and nuclear reactors.
We are talking about centuries of time worth of cognitive capacity to be used as leisure for making art, music, literature. Or simply bonding with families and strengthening our communities.
If that’s not a pressing need I don’t know what is.