I spoke about it before but whenever I have things I need to do, I find myself putting them off even when I’m out of the house in no small part because of how constantly busy traffic is. I may live in the middle of nowhere, but it’s car dependent so there are near constant traffic jams.
Even at the grocery store I find myself wandering aimlessly because of how constantly packed the place is. The gym? It’s full all the time too so it’s hard for me to actually do my workout. When I’m actually in traffic I feel myself getting more and more angry and irritated. I despise how poverty forces me to stay a basement dweller in rural Ohio, I despise how slow going from point a to point b is because of how busy traffic is at all times. It makes me sad seeing fire trucks not go anywhere because of how backed up traffic is.
I think it’s cutting a lot into my productivity in trying to find a job and get myself off my feet when I have to take care of other things, and I wonder if any neurodiverse people feel the same way.
Same in a way, the fact that rich people keep insisting that we MUST drive and build expensive infrastructure to essentially FORCE us to (but it’s ok we’re not legally REQUIRED, just coerced) into buying their shitty product made me realize that the rich don’t care about MY property rights. Hell, if you cave and DO buy the car then you are legally forced to buy insurance, a useless rent-seeking strategy to essentially take your money and do absolutely nothing else.