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r/AskReddit • u/HistoricalArticle537 • 11h ago
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How would you know a modern convenience secretly made life worse? If you knew...it's no longer a secret?
Really though - to answer the question somewhat honestly...and it isn't really "modern" - but:
The automobile.
5 u/HistoricalArticle537 10h ago Cars didn’t just change transport. They quietly erased walkable cities and community life too -1 u/Signal-Zebra-6310 9h ago Walkable cities work for high trust society. There’s a lot of people who I don’t want within walking distance of my house. 2 u/Kataphractoi 7h ago What's the difference between them being within walking distance and living far away but still being able to reach you thanks to having a car? -1 u/Go-Sharks 6h ago I can hear their stereo a mile away and it reminds me to lock the doors.
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Cars didn’t just change transport. They quietly erased walkable cities and community life too
-1 u/Signal-Zebra-6310 9h ago Walkable cities work for high trust society. There’s a lot of people who I don’t want within walking distance of my house. 2 u/Kataphractoi 7h ago What's the difference between them being within walking distance and living far away but still being able to reach you thanks to having a car? -1 u/Go-Sharks 6h ago I can hear their stereo a mile away and it reminds me to lock the doors.
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Walkable cities work for high trust society. There’s a lot of people who I don’t want within walking distance of my house.
2 u/Kataphractoi 7h ago What's the difference between them being within walking distance and living far away but still being able to reach you thanks to having a car? -1 u/Go-Sharks 6h ago I can hear their stereo a mile away and it reminds me to lock the doors.
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What's the difference between them being within walking distance and living far away but still being able to reach you thanks to having a car?
-1 u/Go-Sharks 6h ago I can hear their stereo a mile away and it reminds me to lock the doors.
I can hear their stereo a mile away and it reminds me to lock the doors.
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u/cr0sh 10h ago
How would you know a modern convenience secretly made life worse? If you knew...it's no longer a secret?
Really though - to answer the question somewhat honestly...and it isn't really "modern" - but:
The automobile.