Yes but that's exactly the point. As soon as a good that operates as a luxury good is made available to all it just fucking sucks, regardless of intent.
Mass motoring effects an absolute triumph of bourgeois ideology on the level of daily life. It gives and supports in everyone the illusion that each individual can seek his or her own benefit at the expense of everyone else. Take the cruel and aggressive selfishness of the driver who at any moment is figuratively killing the “others,” who appear merely as physical obstacles to his or her own speed. This aggressive and competitive selfishness marks the arrival of universally bourgeois behavior, and has come into being since driving has become commonplace.
I get what you're saying but Henry Ford certainly didn't envision it that way.
Yes but that's exactly the point. As soon as a good that operates as a luxury good is made available to all it just fucking sucks, regardless of intent.
Came here to post this.
Just finished reading. Thank you for linking it.
Glad you read it, it's one of my favorite essays. Encapsulates everything I hate about cars in a really easily digestible form, well written to boot.