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A Boring Dystopia
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Most of them it's probably still not needed.
I live in the LA area. By car, 45 minutes to work. By bus, 3 buses and 4 hours one way.
In my city, if I want to arrive at my office at 8AM, I need to leave my apartment by car at 7:45. If I want to be within a block or so of my office by that same time, I need to leave my apartment at 6:15 to find a bus stop and ride on three different buses. Getting home by bus after ending my shift at 5:30 (I work 9 hour shifts and get every other Friday off), I would get home about 7:15.
Consider that I'm paid roughly $35 an hour pre-tax. If I do this every day for a month, the time this costs me would be equivalent to more than a two week paycheck.
Why would I take the bus?
I have zero interest in riding a bus for the same reason and I'll add that I'd rather not sit in a bus with a bunch of other people. Hard pass.
If you need a personal cage to feel safe, then maybe the problem isn't the bus.
I'm not afraid of someone doing something to me, I'm more concerned with whatever illness they may have. People are gross, I like my space. You do you and ride a packed a buss full of people with some no doubt sick, and some with terrible hygiene that stink. I'll ride in my luxurious and fast car enjoying my heat and a/c with my heated/ac seats and great sound system.
I couldn't do public transit like that. My anxiety wouldn't let me. The amount of sick people crammed into busses and trains like that. It makes me start to panic. Like in Japan where they force you in an over packed train...I get for many people it's NBD but I couldn't do it.
It's amazing how car dependency is so ingrained that leaving a cage induces agoraphobia, anxiety, and related psychological traumas.