Doesn’t matter. I was a bike messenger for 5 years. We all carried our U-Locks, some carried crowbars, batons, pistols, bear mace, stun guns… None of that matters when someone in a 2 ton death missile can basically light you out from behind faster than you can react.
The problem is and forever will be drivers.
I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.
Just look at how much of Russia’s foreign policy is basically “damn, remember when we were the USSR?”
“Well, wants to send me and people like me to a concentration camp, but I do hate gay people sooooooooooooooooooo”
I have been living in Philly for a decade now, and in that time, I am not sure I have seen a single new house go up for less than $500k. Everything in the $50k-$300k range has been either an ugly condo or old track housing from the post-WW2 period.
This entire line of thought comes from the fact that we have parents who are actively in our lives every damn day saying that nobody deserves to earn over $7.50 / hr because they only earned like $2-$3 / hr in the 70s. They are an active detriment that is preventing any means of progress.
They will not entertain information about buying power, inflation, or ballooning revenues / puckering salaries. This is a sore spot with millennials for this reason. We are not the ones bringing this up, our parents, who did enjoy life 50 years ago, are.
You can pretend that this is about having a toilet indoors all you’d like, they had access to pensions back then.
Wendy Kerby is off limits!