• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Good. Electric cars are a completely unsustainable scam. It’s absurd that people are being subsidized for their privileged and wasteful lifestyles. It’s gross and it’s completely unfair to people who actually want to reverse the climate catastrophe.

    End car dependency, rebuild sustainable infrastructure, and give people credits for light EVs instead. For every electric car we could build like 1000 electric bikes. I could get a super nice e-bike for $7500.

    Ban cars.

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      One thing I never see addressed with the dream of ending cars and just having bikes is how do first responders operate? How do you transport unconscious people to the hospital? Put out an apartment fire? Get to an armed robbery in time to stop it?

      Bikes are great but they also aren’t an end all be all solution to society.

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    With an exception carved out for Tesla, I’m sure.

    In the same vein, all the techbros who voted for Trump are gonna be real asshurt once immigration exemptions are made for tech workers

    Like silicon valley is gonna be forced to pay market rate for American talent, pffh, c’mon now. Wages are like prices but the opposite. Prices always go up and never back down. Wages always come down and never go back up. Tech workers enshittification will commence at triple pace now

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      Musk actually has stated multiple times that he is all for abandoning the subsidies as his own margin is big enough to sustain prices but it will “destroy” his competition.

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    EV producers in the US are going to take a hit, whereas the ones in China and the EU would probably be fine.

    Sounds like shooting itself in the foot.

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      Describe Trumps presidency in one sentence.

      Sounds like shooting itself in the foot.