cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/46124852
My point is that a consumer product is in no way "freeing" the average citizen.
Better bus service, high speed trains, and bike paths would be more freeing but carbrained consumers only think solutions come from buying things. You're just trading one capitalist for another.
Electric cars are liked by billionaires because they don't want better solutions where they have to rub elbows with commoners. This allows them to always have private transport while reducing quality transport options for regular citizens.
Musk literally used his lie of a hyperloop (another way for billionaires to have privacy at the expense of the public) to kill high speed rail in California. This is the guy who kickstarted EV sales in the US.