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[โ€“] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not so fun fact: For every 10cm in car hight theres a corresponding increase in fatalities by 22% (source)

These machines maim us, they kill us, and they cause permanent bodily harm to us. However in exchange they make us fatter, more depressed, less connected, more lonely, angrier, allow us to waste time in traffic, and enjoy cities with less green spaces.

But on the bright side when you spend a significant portion of your paycheck on these horrid machines, and some child in Africa dies for the raw resources needed to make them you can sleep easy at night knowing an automobile CEO can afford his sixth mansion and his eighth mega yacht.