With a transit strike happening starting today, a bunch of local forums have essentially the same discussion:

A: I'm too poor to Uber and I'm not going to be able to get to work
B: Just walk
C: I'm not going to walk 2/3/4 hours
B: what's the problem? Just walk
C: I'm disabled and/or have a family or other commitments and can't spend 2/3/4 hours commuting each way
D: So? Solidarity

People seem to have a hard time understanding that not everyone is an able-bodied person with infinite free time.

@danluu class/income is no longer an acceptable index of privilege, hence contemporary framing of mass transit benefits in purely environmental terms, not how it actually helps poor ppl

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@tobinbaker @danluu That's too bad, it's to a first order approximation the only index of privilege, IMO.

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