@jepyang @edwiebe I mean if someone lives somewhere where they can't get to work without a car, and they can't move to somewhere near public transit, and their car broke down in exactly the way it was engineered to. This is not an accident. That consumer is being forced into buying a vehicle by the people who own the land, make decisions about urban development/public transit, and design the cars.
As I see it, consumers do not have free will in capitalist society.