Everyone cannot own a car. If we all do, it will be impossible to move around. In fact, if the vast majority of the world owns a car and uses it for themselves alone, we will accelerate the death of Mother Earth.
While the possibility of not owning a car due to a plethora of reasons is true for a vast majority of people, should they be condemned to a suicidal fate that is not necessarily orchestrated by them?
I don't believe so. All my life, till the moment I write this, I haven't owned a car. While that is a choice I may have chosen, I don't have to be condemned to unsafe travels and ridiculous extortion.
Common sense would have posited that you extort people who have, even if you want to perform such a heinous crime. In the alternative, transport extortion is done to people who barely have, making their already difficult lives more difficult. Transport fares are decided by actors who don't own the cars or the roads nor create value. In fact, whether or not you profit from the sector is entirely dependent on your alignment.
The worst part is the safety issues. 29 persons are squeezed into a 22-seater bus, and 6 people are squeezed into a 4-seater sedan. You will come out of the cab with your blood flow restricted. For 'them,' this is normal. When you ask the driver to become a passenger in another vehicle, they cannot tolerate the seating arrangements they dish out to the average passenger.
An overcrowded car is already hazardous by nature, but the current system is worse. The airbags are nonexistent, seatbelts are decorative—they will ask you to just hang them around your neck for compliance purposes—the drivers are usually half drunk with Pelebe (sachet alcohol) serving as fuel for their bodily engine. We haven't spoken of the condition of the brake pad, where you can clearly hear the bad sound as a passenger. The body of the vehicle is assorted—the side panels are Volkswagen, the rear side is Mercedes, and the front is Mitsubishi, and the engine is always Toyota, Mazda, or Suzuki. These assorted vehicles are the only options if you don't own a car. That is why every journey in a public vehicle begins with a prayer (that is the only sufficient explanation of how people get home in one piece). I wonder what will happen if the government moves forward with banning this lifeline.
The alternative, whom you would have considered sane, will still squeeze you into their 'private' car. It then gets you wondering if this wasn't a commercial driver 'clothed' with a private car.
Why are we condemned to a suicidal process just because we don't own a car? This has to stop, and it begins with Rydr.