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Re:We can do better than “same, but electric” by jhgb on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:00AM (#30842613)
> In some sense I prefer a Lamborghini to the Hyundai I own. I guess everybody would.

Why would you think that? I for one definitely would not prefer a machine that not only has hideous resource consumption but also makes it much easier to kill myself in it.

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Re:We can do better than “same, but electric” by dionidium on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:00AM (#30842627)
Thankfully we mostly have a free market in automobiles, so you're free to make that choice.
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Re:We can do better than “same, but electric” by jhgb on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:04AM (#30842665)
That is true, yet it has nothing to do with the strange universal claim that "everyone would prefer X". In a world with over seven billion people in it, such universal claims are inherently dangerous.
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Re:We can do better than “same, but electric” by dionidium on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:05AM (#30842690)
Yes, we're agreeing with each other. I think the NIMBY view that everybody prefers detached single-family housing is both wrong in the abstract and in the actual. People should simply be free to express their preferences in a market.
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