This takes the number one spot on the “List of news stories that make me feel like a big lazy sack of privileged crap”.
Police actually protecting and serving. It’s a miracle!
Grim Addiction indeed. The next horror sweeping the nation: Monotony Porn. Hour upon hour of watching paint dry, waiting for water to boil, or enduring the next wave of superhero reboots.
Oh indeed. Sure, we have starved the infrastructure so there are no buses this kid could have taken, destroyed the power of unions and screwed the working poor so much that the precarious employment climate leads a young man to be so desperate as to do something like this, but hey, we have a benevolent ruling class like this CEO that will do such wonderful, heartwarming shit for us. THE SYSTEM WORKS, PEOPLE!!!
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On the one hand, the people in this story were generally excellent and kind, and we need more stories like that!
On the other, I can’t really feel that great about a story that ends with “guy gets gifted a car so he no longer has to suffer our horrendous sprawling, cars-first environment on foot” rather than “local government sees the light, dedicates funding to building sidewalks, bike paths, and bus service”.
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I mean, it’s a sweet story and I’m happy for the kid, but what about the rest of the work force that has to do shit like this on a regular basis. No one is going to hand them a car, even though they probably need it too. How about the CEO actually raise the salary of his employees, so that when their cars break down, they don’t need to make choices that include walking 20 miles to work?
This, too.
Thanks for this link!
There are other solutions - public transit, more dense building with housing nearer to work so that walking isn’t insurmountable, bike paths, higher salaries so that a single emergency doesn’t wreck an entire family’s economic situation. Again, nothing wrong with helping people out, but the more we push charity as the answer, the longer it will be to find actual solutions that solve the underlying problem.
Indeed. Again, I’m glad this worked out for this kid, but how many other people are doing this very same thing on a daily basis?
Yeah. True enough.
Sorry to be the asshole here, but at some point we have to admit that there are larger problems that heartwarming stories aren’t going to fix.
And honestly, that shouldn’t be the case, should it?
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