In many places outside the US, people just rent a trailer or a truck if they need one once a year. Obviously people who need these vehicles for their daily work should be able to use them, but driving a massive pickup truck because you have one task for it annually doesn’t seem like a good solution.
People go camping twice/year and buy a trailer and F350 to haul it, leaving the trailer vacant 50 weeks of the year and using the F350 as a commuter vehicle. But they nEeD a tRuCK fOr HauLiNG.
I feel like a lot of people don’t really understand what “need” and “essential” mean, to be honest, and I think it leads to really skewed priorities at times. I mean, I can respect that it’s different for different people (e.g., takeout food doesn’t really seem like a need for me, but maybe it’s pretty important for somebody on crutches who would have a pretty hard time cooking for themselves right now), but often it seems like anything that’s a convenience becomes a need, if that makes sense? And while I don’t want to make people’s lives harder for no reason, I think there’s a lot of places where we can do something in a slightly less convenient way individually that has a big impact on a larger scale. Being able to prioritized what’s “actually important”, see the bigger picture, and put up with a little individual inconvenience to make things better for everybody as a whole seems like a really important skill to have in a society!
In many places outside the US, people just rent a trailer or a truck if they need one once a year. Obviously people who need these vehicles for their daily work should be able to use them, but driving a massive pickup truck because you have one task for it annually doesn’t seem like a good solution.
People go camping twice/year and buy a trailer and F350 to haul it, leaving the trailer vacant 50 weeks of the year and using the F350 as a commuter vehicle. But they nEeD a tRuCK fOr HauLiNG.
It’s insanity.
I feel like a lot of people don’t really understand what “need” and “essential” mean, to be honest, and I think it leads to really skewed priorities at times. I mean, I can respect that it’s different for different people (e.g., takeout food doesn’t really seem like a need for me, but maybe it’s pretty important for somebody on crutches who would have a pretty hard time cooking for themselves right now), but often it seems like anything that’s a convenience becomes a need, if that makes sense? And while I don’t want to make people’s lives harder for no reason, I think there’s a lot of places where we can do something in a slightly less convenient way individually that has a big impact on a larger scale. Being able to prioritized what’s “actually important”, see the bigger picture, and put up with a little individual inconvenience to make things better for everybody as a whole seems like a really important skill to have in a society!