• ColeSloth
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    5 months ago

    That’s the real issue. It is 100% not that they’re more environmentally cautious. Between less 16 year olds having jobs and cars and gas and insurance being so much more, less can afford a car. E bikes probably even have more to do with it than environmentalism does.

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      5 months ago

      The Internet replacing the need to go places (e.g. chatting on social media vs. hanging out in a dead mall) probably helped too.

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        5 months ago

        You also have ride hail services that weren’t available a generation ago. You can get places in a car without owning a car.

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        5 months ago

        True enough. Cruisin, video gaming on split screen, and malls got replaced by social media and online gaming with voicechat.