Meanwhile, everyone has just allowed the con job of modern employment to continue - there was a time when big companies actually built entire towns to house their employees, so their employees didn't have to commute, and their work efficiency was improved.<br>Now, we've created a glorious world in which every worker gets to own their own car!*<br><br>*which is another way of saying they HAVE to own their own car or they can't work, and to own their own car they have to deal with a lot of extra paperwork, extra taxation, ongoing fuel costs, ongoing maintenance costs, and then get guilt-tripped by the same big companies that sold them this wonderful world about how they're destroying the planet.<br><br>The solution to our vehicle-related plight is not to go with one or the other; it's to return to the natural, more sustainable balance of the civilized world and its population density. Curb immigration. Ensure that if anyone does have to travel, there is ample and timely public transportation. And stop allowing the unrestrained development of otherwise green land into sprawling, doomed surburbias that cannot survive without a fleet of vehicles and a malignant, centralised pattern of commerce.