Art credit: Daniele Turturici
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… (and if somehow there was no infighting, sabotage, dishonesty, crime, corruption, greed, and so-on.)
That stuff has less of an effect of power is distributed.
I am once again asking leftists to use plain language in their memes instead of jargon.
“The world if we were in charge of our labor instead of the capitalists.” See how easy that was?
I don’t know the jargon version is funnier to me.
Sure. I guess some memes are for in-jokes among those who read long theory books (which includes me!) and others are for actually reaching people.
Well, the right wing political ideology is more geared towards the illiterate.
Memes work! They deliver a punchy message in a tiny package. I’d aim them at people who don’t already have a strong political identity and people who are unsure or wavering.
Not even if we string up every capitalist, redistribute their wealth, and smash every state, will we have flying cars. They’re just a bad idea
What if they are silent, lifted with vacuum levitation?
Public transport would still be better
Who’s to say that’s not what’s happening in the image?
The image itself says that by only having two people in the flying machine.
So you only understand public transportation if its packed like sardines?
Sure. Fine. We do not know from context from this picture whether the flying machines being depicted are publicly or privately owned.
However, the fact that they are flying and hold so few people makes the distinction not really matter because of how incredibly inefficient they would be at moving people around.
Who’s to say there are not larger vehicles available for larger families or groups. Seems more efficient to me to hand out transport that fits the party. Guess i don’t see everything through capitalism tented glasses.
The problem is the private mode of transportation. You need to source and mass assemble those flying cars for it to only transport 1-4 people. There exists a contradiction between this fact and a solar punk/environment friendly way of living, because you’d have to exploit a fuck ton of natural resources. Flying/maglev trains tho…
Trains are great, but some level of personal transport will always be necessary at least supplementarily (e.g. bikes, scooters). And we don’t know how much natural resources would be used by flying vehicle construction, maybe there is a decent way to do it.
Physics exists, there is no economical way to fly.
Still uses 100x more energy than any ground based transportation.
No way, it keeps itself on the air with 0 energy expenditure, then moves with minimal resistance. Much more efficient than a land vehicle.
I’m not an engineer, but if they are that light, wouldn’t they be strongly affected by the wind?
Also they would still be crash hazard, so probably would be banned above human settlements and infrastructure, which doesn’t leave a lot of places where they can traverse and take off / land.
A few years ago Adam Something made a video about flying cars - it was in the context of the currently available technology, but imho some of his concerns would still be valid.
They would be light, but have a high mass, so not as jerky as a balloon.
I get that there are a lot of theoretical problems with flying cars, and current technology is sufficient for improving society if we just make different choices. I’ve seen Adam Something video, I just think we shouldn’t stop dreaming about something that has inspired utopian visions for generations. It can be easy to grow sour on the entire idea of innovation after people like elongated muskrat use it to hype up their stock prices and fail to deliver. But innovation can be great, and better futures start by daydreaming.
I have some news for you! There is apparently a company that allows you to easily invest in this future. This is an interview the the founder of this service.
I fucking hate capitalism and this is 100% working within capitalism, so that sucks. However, if we are going to be stuck in this capitalist hellscape, we all have to find ways to live in it. This at least makes it slightly less hellish
The left wants children driving flying cars, this is why women would be happier if they don’t vote
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ngl my first thought on seeing the illustration was Adam Something’s video on flying cars xD
Hot take but that seems pretty awful at least not somewhere I would ever want to live in. First flying cars suck, personal vehicles in general suck but flying cars especially. The amount of noise and nonsense caused by them would outweigh any advantage, some public transportation would be far better. Also while this seems cool for a rual area theres just no density in this picture.
Agreed on the flying car. However this looks pretty dense by US standards. Close buildings, 2+ stories. Could be more since the bottom is obscured by trees. More density might make sense but it’s not bad.
Even by US standards it doesnt seem very high, I mean it is in a mountainous or hilly area so ofc density isnt going to be the best but it seems rual. Maybe dense by California standards but im a New Yorker.
Gotcha. New York is the exception though. Most of the US is honestly even worse than California.
But yeah you would not be 10’ from a neighbor in a rural area. This is about the same density as my neighborhood which is a moderate density mixed use area many suburbanites would call “downtown”. You’re right that density could be higher but if every neighborhood looked like this it would be way way more dense than what we have today.
I guess we know who wins the outside cat struggle sesh
