ArgalsMar 15

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

Show threadkirch

@argals reminds me of:

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport. It is where the rich walk and where they use bikes. We should create cities where rich and poor meet as equals: in parks, on the sidewalks, on public transport.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s Happiest People

Mar 16 at 12:44amWeb
Show threadMad EngineeringMar 16
@kirch @argals You'd want to a society where the rich use mass transit because mass transit is so good, not one where the rich ride mass transit because there's a vehicle shortage and the only alternative is walking.
Show threadbrett danversMar 16
@madengineering @kirch @argals there would always be vehicles for the rich! Armoured most likely.
Show threadPeter KreftingMar 16

@kirch @argals The "MAGA" party of Norway (Framskrittspartiet) sees cyclists as "elitists" and seems to have stopping the building of bike lanes in favour of car routes as one of their founding principles.

(Swedish immigrant in Norway here, living in Oslo since 26 years and have not yet seen the need to own a car).