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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You sure showed me by spending a lot more on gas than I do.

The big difference is that trucking generates profit while car use is a personal cost. Rolling coal is negligible to a guy who probably doesn’t even own the rig. Meanwhile, we’ve spent a long time dismantling our rail networks in order to profit the automotive industry.

In the end of the day, everything is made deliberately less efficient in order to carve out more and more little profit-centers for middle men and profiteers. It might look stupid and inefficient to you, but to them its just a fringe benefit in an industry with literal money to burn.

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