Everywhere does, but Canada has a post secondary education rate of ~66%, and typically votes 66% sane. America has a post secondary education rate of ~50%, and typically votes 50% sane.

There are other differences between the countries, but I think it’s impossible to argue that a substantially more educated population hasn’t led to a stabler and more thoughtful political climate.

How many revolutions around the world have been sparked by student protests? It honestly seems like close to half of them from the past century or two. There’s a reason that Elon and all the billionaires are trying to convince people that college is a waste.

You are right, all the comments replying to you are making vacuous individualist arguments like ‘it won’t work every single time’, when what’s important is that ‘on average, it will raise intelligence and the ability to critically evaluate situations’.

The internet loves to just regurgitate what they heard before and only deal in absolutes, so right now it’s that they would have made more money in the trades, so suddenly college and higher education is meaningless and provided no value to them. It’s honestly embarassing how much they’re just buying into right wing propaganda.

A more educated population is a more empowered population, and there’s absolutely no reason that everyone shouldn’t do some form of post secondary education, whether it’s university, college, or a trades program that includes college level courses. You’re not going to be able to understand how the world actually works or get a sense of the depth of knowledge in each field by just dropping out of high school and stopping thinking hard.

It does. Look at Canada.

She’s not a journalist, she’s a rage bait social media personality. Find a better source for news.

Lol the reliance on diesel generators (and all the necessary systems and infrastructure to run them) is not negligible.

They are still a waste of resources compared to a purely collective solution like you’re advocating for.

The most efficient use of resources would be to build massive solar farms in warm sunny areas like Arizona, and then build massive distribution grids to where it’s needed. But this sacrifices resiliency and flexibility.

It’s no different then diesel generators. The reality is that the world is not simple and the best option will be a mixed system that is collectivist in some areas and individualistic in others.

When you live in a city and the ambulance station is 5m from your house, then owning a car will, at most, save you 5m in an emergency situation. When you live in the country and it’s 45m from your house, then owning a car can save you 45min which can easily be the difference between life and death, or recovering normally vs recovering with life altering injuries.

Many many many people do have diesel generators for backup power in the case the grid goes down.

And if you’re building out a new solar system, most will build battery backups for the same reason + cost optimizing.

If your point is that fossil fuels are more polluting than electric motors, then sure, yeah, we all agree.

If your point is that we should always optimize for resource efficiency over flexibility and resiliency, then I think you’re a little misguided, as I see no arguments for not building solar microgrids.

Unfortunately for many people in this country, the only places within walking distance of home are paved urban sprawl. It is not particularly safe to walk there, and neither is it pleasant with the lack of shade, constant vehicle noise, and urban heat in the summer.

That’s the suburbs, not the country.

I agree with you, that there should be more robust public transit and nature options for people who want to live in cities, but that does not change the necessity of cars for people in the country.

I mean, they were white by our modern standards but if you read writing at the time, the Irish, Italians, Greeks, etc were often not referred to or considered to be white.

The Irish were also literally fleeing a genocide.

Yes you are, and it’s rather embarassing in light of being handily proven to be wrong.

Name a developed country, and I’ll point you to a power outage and a need for backup generators. Here, how about I start:

Canada ✅, Norway ✅, Switzerland ✅, The UK ✅, Belgium ✅, Costa Rica ✅, Japan ✅, South Korea ✅

So please do go ahead and tell us your mythical country that doesn’t ever have power outages due to inclement weather?

Oh what’s that? You can’t name one?

As long as you were white.

So no country in the world is developed then? Because literally every single country in the world has power outages.

Lmfao, you sweet innocent indoor cat.

Yeah, but that model does not work when you live out in the country. That’s literally a model that only works past a certain population density.

Lmao, no.

It’s because roads get built first because they’re cheap and flexible. It costs nothing to build a dirt road but a bulldozer and a bit of time.

Transportation networks start with desire paths with take the form of cheap and easy roads, then they’re expanded and improved upon or abandoned as time goes on demand calls for it.

Eventually public transit gets added and then eventually trains get built.

Congratulations on being a semi-outdoor cat, how often do you go out to the country, vs how often do you walk around the block before returning to your echo chamber? Because bringing up a detached Who Framed Roger Rabbit argument about San Francisco’s trams has literally nothing to do with most of the rural country that simply does not and never has had the demand necessary to support public transit.

Yeah and pedestrians can follow the same rules too, it’s just fucking asinine to make them do so because it’s drawing a false equivalency between two things that aren’t equivalent.

All the egregious cyclists behaviour you’re bitching about is still illegal with the Idaho stop rules.

So you want me to take a multi wheeled, suspension having, covered, and motorized vehicle?

Congratulations, you’ve invented the Pontiac Aztec!

Do go ahead and tell us how you moved your last bookcase on your bike? Last couch? Last fridge? Last washing machine?

Lmao, “pleasant and safe to walk around”?

Bruh come the fuck on have you literally never been out to the country or nature?

People in this thread need to get off the internet and literally just go for a hike in the woods. They seem to have forgotten what this little thing called nature is like.

I have an e bike and bike trailer, but you know what cars have? Covers. And locks. And suspension so my shit doesn’t get rattled to pieces or stolen or rained on.

Lmao.

Bruh I was in Switzerland last year, their rural areas are like 20min from their urban areas. You can literally fit 26 countries of Switzerlands into a single province of Ontario. Literally no where there is as rural as most of Ontario.

Public transit is great, but you’re acting like public transit can cover all the edge cases of country living and it just fundamentally cannot.

Roads are built first, they always have been and always will be because it costs almost nothing to build a dirt road.

Then once there is enough demand on the roads, they’re improved and widened and eventually replaced with higher capacity, more permanent links like trains.

That means that the edge of your transportation network is always going to be based around roads and cars.