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Let us pause for a while at this juncture to contemplate modern society's greatest nightmare, motorized traffic.
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Sometimes, as a gesture of technical bravado, economists may add to the social cost of motorized traffic an estimate of the costs to the community of the number of fatal accidents by the felicitous device of reckoning the cost of a man killed as the loss of a potential future pecuniary contribution to the national product.
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...how much should the motor-enthusiast have to pay the potential corpse for depriving him of life and liberty? There is more than one way of reckoning the social costs of a pastime that has the incidental effect of killing off one's fellows. And reckoning it the hard way -- at unimaginably large sums necessary to satisfy those who want to be no part of the motorized society -- seems right to me, even if it would entail the abolition of private motoring in any collective choice.
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The very existence of the private motor-car encourages the geographical dispersion of housing, of shops, of entertainment, and of a variety of consumer services, which spread, in its turn increases the indispensability of the private automobile.
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...the invention of the private automobile is one of the great disasters to have befallen the human race. Given the absence of controls, the growth of population and its increased wealth and urbanization would, in any case, have produced overgrown cities. Commercial and municipal greed, coupled with architectural apathy, share the responsibility for a litter of shabby buildings. But it needed the motor-car to consummate these developments, to fill our days with clamor and fumes, to suburbanize the countryside and to subtopianize suburbia, and to ensure that any resort which became accessible should simultaneously become unattractive. The motor industry has come to dominate the economy as brazenly as its products dominate our physical environment, and our psychology. The common sight today, of street after street strewn thick with lay-about cars, no longer dismays us.
Chronology :
April 11, 2020 : Cars -- Added.
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