&gt;but that just means people (and jobs) are reallocated to more useful stuff.<p>No one argues that bullshit is constantly being iterated on. But cars <i>are</i> bullshit - i.e. we lived for a long time without them, and they needed to be advertised to take hold. Now simply having a car is entrenched bullshit, and the cutting edge is convincing people to buy expensive ones.<p>You don&#x27;t need a car, but cars are necessary to facilitate the American Dream, also sold to us by advertising in the 40s&#x2F;50s, of living in suburbs. Home ownership and the things that go with it are equally bullshit.<p>One of the first documented shifts in public opinion orchestrated by a PR firm is America&#x27;s belief that roads are for cars instead of people.