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That's because capitalists and their government buddies realized they could underpay workers and brute-force them into settling for long, unsatisfying commutes that they absolutely hate having to do.

I'm willing to bet no one you work with looks forward to spending two hours or so traveling to work every day, either.

I'm assuming you weren't too happy about having to waste nearly four hours of your day in commuting though, which is the point of the article. People are satisfied with a commute of up to 30min each way, any longer and it starts to annoy them

It's an old Hindi song jokingly calling someone a donkey

Get this AI slop out of here

Clearly not lmao

I got banned from Reddit because I was mean to Israel

Your "friend", if they exist, is either a fucking moron and or they're fucking with you. People everywhere in the country like having toilets and indoor plumbing, sometimes they just can't afford them because the government has their heads up their own asses

you can just hop into a mobocab which is on standby and get moving

The train would: 1. Rarely be there in the moment somebody actually needs it 2. Almost always be empty.

The mobocabs won't actually be there when someone needs them, either. They're on rails. They're not going to just be hanging out somewhere in the middle of the line so they can show up in a couple of minutes, they'll be on standby at a trainshed on either end of the line. It's going to take like 30 minutes for one to arrive -- at that point you might as well just have a tram that comes every 30 minutes or so

I'd think a short, reversible, single-car tram (like Coventry's VLR) would work a hell of a lot better for connections between villages/small towns than Uber for rails with needlessly complicated gyroscopic bs.

My government doesn't give a flying fuck about "good marketing", they only care about money and power, which their corporate overlords are more than happy to provide in exchange for...(lots of) money and (real) power. We've been agitating for better pedestrian access in the city for years now and this is the bare minimum we got. We're still raising hell about it

No. Settling for half-assed bullshit like this is exactly how this country got to where it is. The powers that be realized we'd settle for anything and they could skim as much as they liked off the top of our taxes while distracting us with inane bullshit.