• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    It’s crazy what the 5 year cost of ownership is when you factor in depreciation, average maintenance/repair, gas, and insurance.

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    3 months ago

    It isn’t getting better if you need a car to reach a possible workplace which is 50km away, but you also have to pay for a driver license, which is also very expensive

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    Remember the “Free ride for free citizens.” propaganda in 1989 against the GDR? Cynical.

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    3 months ago

    I often like to brag that I have a chauffeur who drives me around in a 16-wheel Mercedes with over 400 HPs after taking the bus

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    This is how propaganda works, they bill taking away your freedom as itself being freedom.

    Same as with many other things like billing a fundamental rejection of your country’s founding principles as ‘Patriotism’.

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    FE:

    Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.