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We’ve spent a lifetime telling ourselves that modern travel is this massive human victory. It started as a huge leap by trading horses for jet engines and making the world feel small enough to hold. At the time, it felt like pure progress. We didn't just speed things up; we literally paved over the world to make moving around feel effortless. We saw distance as a problem to be crushed, and we definitely crushed it. But if you actually look at how we live now, that dream of freedom feels a lot more like a trap. Owning a car isn’t a status symbol or a sign of independence anymore. It’s a massive, non-negotiable tax you have to pay just to exist in society. The real kicker is that our cities aren't built for people because they’re built for shells of steel and glass. If you don't own a car or have access to one, you’re essentially locked out of normal life. We’ve built these sprawling gaps where you can only survive if you’re moving at the speed of an engine. It’s wild that the loudest, heaviest, and most dangerous machines on the planet get the right of way for everything, but everyone else, including the people walking or biking, is stuck begging for scraps of space. It’s reached a point where just crossing the street or riding a bike feels like a nuisance to the "real" world of traffic. Being a pedestrian feels like being an obstacle rather than the other way around. We spent decades engineering a world that prioritizes transit over people. We solved the problem of getting from A to B fast, but we ended up with a world that is fundamentally hostile to the humans living in it. The machines get the smooth ride while we are just the ones left trying not to get in their way.

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