This is unironically the 30-50 feral hogs argument but for a car, my dude. Nobody's saying you can't drive your mushrooms around. But pretending that you need a luxury lifestyle vehicle to do so isn't revolutionary.
The sale of new ICE vehicles will be banned in most of the western world by 2035. That's policy that people are going to have to accept, and even that is going to be too late to meaningfully impact climate collapse. People will go down kicking and screaming about their precious coal roller, I'm sure. In the meantime, defending this literal death drive of inefficient, impractical vehicles as lifestyle choice is absurd.
There are a handful of truck models I'd call luxury lifestyle vehicles. If your qualifier is just big truck, is your proletarian lifestyle alternative going to be multiple trips with a smaller truck or the same number of trips for the required volume with a larger and less efficient truck? Those cargo trucks will still need to exist to carry the food to your urban grocery that entirely depends on the efficient operation of people carrying heavy loads in their big trucks. 30-50 feral hogs makes sense in the context of Texan fields overrun by feral hogs. Where you're wrong is that you're privileged enough to not have to deal with work environments that all have 30-50 feral hogs running around. When those hogs are the most basic level of the entire logistics system and the bulk of this country's landscape, that argument means something real to a much larger number of people. It's not Texas farmers who need to shoot hogs, it's every farmer everywhere and everyone who identifies with farmers like Appalachians identify with coal miners. Give me something better than an AR-15 to kill hogs with or accept that you don't have to kill hogs because other people do for you, people you're alienating to your detriment.
This is unironically the 30-50 feral hogs argument but for a car, my dude. Nobody's saying you can't drive your mushrooms around. But pretending that you need a luxury lifestyle vehicle to do so isn't revolutionary.
The sale of new ICE vehicles will be banned in most of the western world by 2035. That's policy that people are going to have to accept, and even that is going to be too late to meaningfully impact climate collapse. People will go down kicking and screaming about their precious coal roller, I'm sure. In the meantime, defending this literal death drive of inefficient, impractical vehicles as lifestyle choice is absurd.
There are a handful of truck models I'd call luxury lifestyle vehicles. If your qualifier is just big truck, is your proletarian lifestyle alternative going to be multiple trips with a smaller truck or the same number of trips for the required volume with a larger and less efficient truck? Those cargo trucks will still need to exist to carry the food to your urban grocery that entirely depends on the efficient operation of people carrying heavy loads in their big trucks. 30-50 feral hogs makes sense in the context of Texan fields overrun by feral hogs. Where you're wrong is that you're privileged enough to not have to deal with work environments that all have 30-50 feral hogs running around. When those hogs are the most basic level of the entire logistics system and the bulk of this country's landscape, that argument means something real to a much larger number of people. It's not Texas farmers who need to shoot hogs, it's every farmer everywhere and everyone who identifies with farmers like Appalachians identify with coal miners. Give me something better than an AR-15 to kill hogs with or accept that you don't have to kill hogs because other people do for you, people you're alienating to your detriment.