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0 pointshannasanarion5y ago0 comments

>Bicycles are nice but have lower capacity for cargo and passengers

My e-cargo bike with a trailer can hold more stuff than my sedan ever could. Did an Ikea trip with it last year, carried home a filing cabinet, a desk frame, and a small table.

> mass transit is less flexible

frequent mass transit is plenty flexible. If a bus comes by your stop every 5 minutes, you never need to worry about planning.

> distributed

multi-node database. Done.

> resistant to inflation

Not something that sane people should want. Economies grow from commerce and reinvestment, not people jealously hogging every dollar they can find so that they can stash it under a bed to be used at higher value later.

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Twirrim5y ago

> frequent mass transit is plenty flexible. If a bus comes by your stop every 5 minutes, you never need to worry about planning.

I never once missed my car when I lived in London. Pop along to the end of the street for a bus every 5-10 minutes, or just a little bit further away and I was at a tube station where I could be on a train within 10 minutes that took me right across London far faster than any car could. The one or two occasions I needed a car, I could rent one, and still be better off than if I'd been paying the month-to-month expenses of keeping a car on the road (insurance, MOT etc.)

Car rentals are even easier these days than they were back then.

chordalkeyboard5y ago

> Not something that sane people should want

Thats uncharitable, and in my opinion ignorant. Inflation distorts the signals people use to make investments, leading to misallocation of assets.

hannasanarionOP5y ago

And deflation, where the value of your cash increases constantly if you do literally nothing with it, leads to good allocation of assets?

There have been two major periods of deflation in the history of the US dollar. 1930-1933, and 2007-2008. When the value of money increases, people don't spend it, they hoard it, commerce stops, and the economy grinds to a halt.

Just look at your beloved bitcoin, who is actually using it to buy and sell anything (besides illegal goods and money laundering)? The price is entirely propped up by speculation and fake Tethers, and because it is increasing, everyone who has any knows they would be a fool to use it, which is the whole point of currency.

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