wopazoo [he/him]

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  • It’s incredible that you can’t wrap your head around the fact that creating a tax that only rich people can afford makes SUVs a privilege for the rich.

    SUVs for Poor People 2024 - Why should only rich people drive SUVs?

    No one should drive SUVs. Making SUVs something only rich people can afford reduces the total amount of SUVs on the road. I’m sure that you would prefer Singapore over Dallas, right?

    It’s doubly funny that you yourself already admitted that it’s only rich people who own SUVs anyways meaning that there’s likely to be little tangible effect from this.

    You’d be surprised at the irrationality of rich people who spend big bucks on an expensive car but balk at tripled parking prices.

    Here’s an anecdote: I personally know a Lexus driver who refuses to drive downtown because the parking is too expensive.





  • Nice straw man buddy. What we’re actually talking about merits of making SUVs a privilege for the rich or banning them.

    SUVs have always been a privilege for the rich. This policy reduces the amount of people who can afford to drive SUVs downtown. It is a net good despite your aesthetic objections against it.

    A world where everyone can afford to drive SUVs is not better than a world where only a few can afford to drive SUVs. The world where everyone can afford to drive SUVs is the American suburb, where car ownership is so heavily subsidized to the point that even poor people drive SUVs. Do you think this is better than Hong Kong or Singapore, where only rich people can afford to drive SUVs?

    I’m not, but keep on straw manning there. Seems to be what you excel at.

    This is literally your position. Your logic is completely indistinguishable from that of pro-car concern trolling. There is an in-between world between Dallas and utopia. There needs to be an in-between step between car hell and bicycle utopia. Expensive parking is a needed step in the right direction. To refuse to take the first step out of car hell, however imperfect it might be, is to advocate for an indefinite wallowing in the pits of shit.

    Nope, but I’ve already realized that having a serious discussion with you isn’t possible. Bye.

    And you are simply a deeply unserious person who says they want something but in actuality are advocating for the exact opposite. Good riddance!

    In your bizarro world, there are actually no in-between steps between carbon hell and green utopia. Until carbon dioxide is banned, people should just be allowed to emit CO2 for free.

    I’m so sorry that you cannot comprehend a world that’s in-between “everyone drives SUVs” and “only a few drive SUVs” and understand why the latter world is better than the former world. When you advocate against policy that improves society somewhat on the basis that it doesn’t create utopia, you are advocating in favor of the status-quo.

    No hard feelings.


  • When there is adequate infrastructure then there should just be a ban period.

    You are deeply unserious if your proposal is just “ban all cars lulz”.

    What these policies achieve is to provide the rich with privileges that regular people can’t enjoy.

    Congestion pricing and paid parking have objectively reduced traffic in downtowns across the world, and you are deeply unserious if you want to achieve a goal but refuse to do anything to work towards that goal.

    You are seriously advocating for the massive subsidization of drivers here. I do not weep for the ability of the common man to impose massive externalities on their fellow men and have their behavior be subsidized.

    Cars are a luxury good that most people simply cannot afford without massive subsidies. Consider how in Hong Kong and Singapore, where cars aren’t subsidized, only the rich can afford to drive. Do you think that this is wrong? Should Hong Kong and Singapore bulldoze their cities and pave over paradise so that poor people can drive too?

    You are acting as if driving cars is a God-given right that poor people are being denied. There is no such right to drive a car. The private automobile is a luxury good that would have never spread to the masses if not for massive government subsidies. Driving is not a civil right.


  • The real solution is to invest in building public transit infrastructure, to design cities to be walkable.

    We are talking about Paris here. Paris has the best public transit infrastructure in the world. Paris is highly walkable.

    People who drive downtown have no excuse for their actions and must be penalized accordingly.

    When London implemented congestion pricing, it significantly improved traffic and encouraged people to take transit. You are completely ignoring reality if you oppose congestion pricing on the basis of it being ineffective.