A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting

The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found

  • @aestheleteEnglish
    6•5 days ago

    Some of it is subject to human frailty. Even the rich are too busy being racist to make the most money they possibly could. Human biases affect and infect even the systems we produce in ways that are difficult to untangle or even perceive at first glance.

    The fictional, optimal economist version of people doesn’t exist in boardrooms or secret societies either. It exists nowhere.

    It’s important to understand that because otherwise you lend credence to the mystifying, unempowering idea that they are all part of an unstoppable plot full of perfect agents and not just a cohort of self-centered, biased, and routinely misguided mortals just like the rest of us.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝English
      4•5 days ago

      Yes, it is not a statistical oddity the wealthy are shit humans. This system is guaranteed to produce these oligarchs.