NOTE: This post was inspired by a Vigilant Fox segment which aired on Substack.
The USA has progressively stopped respecting free enterprise for a century now, but a big drop in US respect for free enterprise occurred after 1988 — Reagan’s last year in office. Back in 1988, for every 100 persons aged 16 and up, there were 5.7 new cars sold:
But, mostly because of the decline in respect for economic freedom (rise of authoritarian statism in USA), less than 1.1 new cars were sold per 100 persons in 2022 — an 81% reduction in car purchasing:
Given how people held new cars for 4.7 years in 2008 (when per capita sales had been cut in half), that means that about a third of this reduction in car buying is due to cars lasting longer than they did back in 1988, leaving two-thirds of the reduction to be explained by lost freedom:
To keep the people from discovering that their lost freedom is what is causing their living standards to drop lower, shadowy globalist elites concocted an ingenious plan which “coincidentally” involves less cars on the road:
At bottom-right you can see that, beyond the 81% reduction in car purchasing which has already occurred, they want it reduced by another 31%. The IPCC is in cahoots with an outfit called “C40 Cities” which has been advocating for lower human living standards in order to “save the planet”:
And here is their goal for car ownership:
Notice how their non-ambitious target reduces car ownership to the point where only 19 adults out of every 100 own a car, but that, what they’d really like to see, is no car ownership.
“Great Reset” documents suggests that shadowy globalist elites plan to continue disrespecting economic freedom to the point where it takes away the opportunities that we and our children have for a bright future.
Reference
[people held onto new cars for 4.0 years in 2002, and for 4.7 years in the recession of 2008] — Vehicle Technologies Office. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-622-may-10-2010-average-length-light-vehicle-ownership
[monthly car sales] — U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Motor Vehicle Retail Sales: Domestic and Foreign Autos [LAUTONSA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LAUTONSA
[people aged 16 and up] — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Population Level [CNP16OV], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CNP16OV
[C40 Cities outfit joined at the hip with IPCC] — https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/SPM-for-cities.pdf
[C40 Cities wants at least 31% less car ownership] — https://www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/article/The-future-of-urban-consumption-in-a-1-5-C-world?language=en_US
Follow the money. The same agenda that reduces the ability to migrate within the US for work, also includes increased in-migration that increases the already-savage competition for available income streams.
For an increasing number of US citizens, their vehicle is also their only shelter. Global elites prefer that anyone unable to meet inflated rent costs, live in a tent or just bed down on sidewalks.
When citizens cannot follow the available workflows, they are trapped and at the complete and utter mercy of merciless elite rentiers. The noble-sounding "waste reduction" narrative is their business case for imposing indentured servitude.
Liberty is, to a great degree, the right to make mistakes and learn from them. It's a matter of striving, and errors in judgement have an associated amount of sunk cost. That cost is visible as "waste."
Take one aspect; the clothing allowance. Meeting their target is an inherent praxis of rationing. That's what increased prices do; create a choice architecture whereby one need is sacrificed for another. It's economics 101, and absent an infinitude of resources, will always be a fundamental fact of life. Too bad if you ripped out your pants during a fall when out camping; you have a ration of needles and thread, use them and don't go camping again because you might require replacement clothing afterward.
Those who know, know it’s all part of the same agenda....interesting reading attached. Short like yours😀
https://open.substack.com/pub/galepooley?r=7csq7&utm_medium=ios