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You seem to think being a car passenger makes you immune to injuries and fatalities.

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In the UK, less than 2,000 people died in road traffic accidents in 2019. The reason why the rate is so much lower is down to improved road safety methods, and it has fallen by more than two-thirds since 1979,

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i wouldn't ever want to not drive at all, but i'm glad i'm not alone in being what some people might think of as "over cautious." driving by necessity requires a lot of faith in people (and machinery), far more faith than i have. so i do tend to avoid driving in situations i find particularly dangerous.

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1) danger is cool and necessary for human existence

2) commuting doesn't suck because it's dangerous, it sucks because it's a mind numbing waste of time and a cause of community destruction and alienation. This is a feature, not a bug-disaggregation is a business strategy as well as a social engineering one. Atomized individuals are more legible to the state, better controllable-see Seeing Like A State and On Power. Of course, eventually you've gained all the benefit you can from disaggregation and want to go the other way-hence WFH, remote learning, etc.

3) to beat Musk, you don't need to have more kids, you need to have and raise kids who want to have and raise kids who want to have and raise kids. Being an alienated secular atom with tons of wealth and spawning a few kids with a succession of dysfunctional art hoes is not a strategy for that. Those kids will inherit a host of dysfunctions from their mom, fellow rich kids and dysfunctional institutions they will be placed into. Hence, wealthy wigger Ben Horowitz has managed to have three goy kids, one of whom (so far) is a troon. If his Trotskyite dad had put on a black hat and gone to shul instead of dedicating his life to Boomercon Inc., he'd have 500 Jewish great-grandchildren instead of 5 goyish ones.

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