Energy and Equity - Ivan Illich

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Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings the city within view, but not within reach, of most Brazilian subsistence farmers. The new expressway expands Chicago, but it sucks those who are well-wheeled away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto.

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teilo 10 years, 9 months ago
Yes, the old canard that progress and success = oppression. And what, pray tell, do you propose to bring equity to this alleged crisis? The answers are always the same. More taxes, more tyranny, more government mandates, but all of them created by a mind that has absolutely no ability to think beyond the most immediate consequences of its proposed policies.

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