• lime!@feddit.nu
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    5 days ago

    the prefix “some” is implicit there. but also, like, the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars. it’s just that the hundreds of container ships going around the world is a way bigger problem still.

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      the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars

      Sure. But it’s not the individual commuters who are setting national transportation policy.

      The folks driving the sports cars (and in the yachts and private jets), on the other hand…

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        that’s why i continued my post. to illustrate that the issue is not the individual within the system, but the system itself and the people who shape it.