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My biggest issue with the whole thing is how cars don't have the same limitations. If both were given restrictions to speed and such I could see this as safety focused as opposed to shock at a new thing vs indifference with old thing.

Younger individuals should also be more likely to walk-it-off and go unreported.

We obtained data on micromobility vehicle injuries from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), a comprehensive database managed by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.15 The NEISS collates injury data associated with consumer products from approximately 100 emergency departments (EDs) across the US and its territories.

While I don't agree with regulating the hell out of ebikes simply because people are reckless I also know how I used to fall off a bike and never see a doctor in my younger years while I would likely need to see one now.

Also helps to be the only real option for electric "cars" and not suvs/trucks. For things like the EV6 your only real competitor is Tesla and people hate Musk.

This is some peak capitalist realism. Never once did I say that communism was the solution, I provided no solutions at all actually, and I simply pointed out the flaws in capitalism but you know so little about economic systems to go to communism.

Can't do any more mental gymnastics to defend capitalism so you go to fear of another system not even discussed. You and I are not immune to propaganda and if you believe in democracy then why would your workplace not be democratic? The manufacturers never would have voted to move their jobs to China during the late 20th century. The capitalists did it. Walmart was a small family business and now it's the largest employer in the US and half of it is owned by people born into a specific family like a monarchy.

I get that you support Keynesian economics but this was before globalism and you can't rely on a government to fight capitalism in places it doesn't govern.

It's a bunch of anti-union, billionaire/corporate toe suckers cosplaying as Lincoln as if they would do anything progressive.

The really sad thing about this is that Tesla dings most of these boxes as well.

You're allowed to like a product but don't give a corporation points for making you pay for something.

Yeah, then it can just export all of the problems to other countries and abuse the hell out of those with no power to fight back.

You seem to be trying to push a narrative that I don't oppose as if I do. I support degrowth but your reasons are flawed.

Pumped Hydro, solar, and wind don't really use lithium, nickel, or cobalt. Those are mostly used in NCM Liion cells that none of these use. Permanent magnets would probably be the biggest headache tbh.

Idk why we'd need silicone, we're not making sex toys here. /s silicon is most common in sand and rocks, something there is plenty of basically everywhere.

I don't care what you're saying for this circular problem. I've literally not addressed it once because I agree with you, I just don't agree with your reasoning.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/nuclear-waste-us-could-power-the-us-for-100-years.html

specialist minerals needed for hydro storage and renewables

What specialist materials are we talking about? Wind, solar, and pumped hydro use primarily copper, silicon, carbon, and concrete.

In yesterday's America too. Look at the Battle of Blair Mountain for instance where corporations have run the show for centuries.

Pretty sure there's enough weapons grade plutonium to run the US for 100 years in decommissioned nuclear weapons alone.

I think 100 years is enough time to build pumped hydro storage and renewables like solar/wind.

Idk, I think the original guy has a point. Small and medium businesses generally work really well in western economies, it’s the megacorps and monopolies that fuck all the shit up

Basically all megacorps and monopolies started as small and medium businesses. And I'm not against small and medium businesses but that whoever has money owns said businesses. Capitalism is the idea that the workers don't own the business they work at but someone who's never worked there does. Capitalism is the driving force that makes small and medium businesses into megacorps.