Mine is not having a chance to fly on the Concord.
We aren’t taxing the rich
Stock buy backs should be illegal. Let them sell to others as the free market gods intended.
All the steps towards dystopia and nobody is able to stop it. Doesnt matter what you vote for or what you buy. So you are just seeing it become more and more dystopian every year and you cant do anything.
That I have to go to work. Love my job hate the idea of doing it for so long.
That we can have bullet trains, but not here apparently for no reason other than greed.
“Can we have comfortable flights on airplanes?”
“No.”
“Can they at least be affordable then?”
“Yeeaaahhhh… No.”
“OK. How about the existing passenger trains? Can they be…”
“Nope!”
Do ya feel like doing pull ups before ya fly? The big guy sitting next to ya does.
Okay let’s see.
Most of all I think, I hate that i don’t have easy access to nature. I live in the European lowlands, and the best we can do here is overcultivated/overhiked forests that are basically parks.
Then I hate that there are not enough trains (even in Europe). We subsidize the shit out of airlies and yet if I just want to hop on a train to go to London or Copenhagen, I basically can’t, without sigificant planning.
Then I also hate that the glamour of driving is gone. The age of Peak Car is long gone, the only reasonable option to go from A to B is on a highway but even thise are mostly jammed most of the time. I know Peak Car was very polluting (heck, my definition of Peak Car is basically the 60s so they still used leaded fuel lol), which is also smth I hate… I guess I basically want to live in the sweet ignorance of the 60s to not even know about these.
Then I hate that skiing is basically a dying sport, with more and more people (over)using the less and less usable slopes because of course together with climate, we fucked the ski resorts too.
And lastly but not least(ly), I hate how we fucked the Web and want Peak Web (the web of the late 90s/early 2000s) back please.
Especially as a European the first two things can be changed to some degree. I live within sight(200m) of a proper nature park that basically is an extension of an national park. And I have four different options for fast train travel within an hour and a (most of the time) reasonably good regional connection and a almost perfect regional connection 25min away.
Tbh, we did specifically move here for these things.
In terms of driving I must disagree - I have driven various cars from the 60ies and while they are gorgeous from the outside, the inside was always very underwhelming and also simply exhausting to drive. But maybe I am also too different - I used to have big company cars (BMW 5, Audi A4/6/7, MB C/E) and did not really like them. Nowadays I drive a EV6 and it’s the most fun car I ever had,by a higr margin.
Apparently the first world is free or something, yet everyone is so amazingly conformist. From the way they speak to the way they dress to the work they do and friendships and relationships, the vast majority is content to live a life of greige and shopping at Costco.
tbf costco is very convenient, and with their corporate structure/solid pay etc. they’re like the least evil supermarket chain you can buy from. better than alot of mom & pop type places
sure, i’d shop at a local co-op first but if you have to shop at evil megastore you might as well do it at the somewhat less-evil megastore, right?
Sure, they’re not a bad place to shop. But making it a personality trait is excessive.
Also Costco hotdog is the only true stablecoin.
The values of Accountability, Responsibility and Dignity are pretty much a joke.
Democracy
America as a whole.
Water isn’t free any more?
(I was told it was in the past. No water bill, how?)In yester year people would build water wells on property they claimed as their own. They’d drink it straight from the ground. Then their neighbors decided to let oil companies, chemical plants, and factory farms operate on the land. The water was then no longer suitable to drink.
Bringing it closer to the conclusion, it’s costly to treat the water that we want to come out of our taps, so we’re paying for that cleaning/treatment of water.
It’s still free in Ireland, at least for home use.
Capitalism
Private medical clinics only the super rich can afford.
A unified language, Esperanto.
Hell, I’m a native English language speaker that doesn’t do well with other languages but I saw the pragmatic case-use of it.
There’s a video game loosely based on that language, The Expression Amrilato. It’s how I first heard of it.
The fact people speak different languages that hold rich histories and different sounds and complexities are actually really cool and the idea we should all speak the same sounds very sad and boring
The EMDrive wasn’t real
If it comes to flying, mine would be to never have flown on a Twin Otter, ideally with a bush pilot somewhere in remote mountainous boondocks. I’d settle for a Cessna Caravan or a Kodiak etc. instead.
