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Is that a good thing?
Sometimes, we must face reality. Newly developed safety features are a selling point and people do pay more for safer cars. If law dictated (and enforced) that all cars must have the exact same safety features, there would be no financial incentive to develop better safety, or much less incentive at least. In reality, car safety features are one of the few examples of things actually trickling down: today's cheapest cars have safety features that at some point only existed in the most expensive luxury cars. This is fine.
None of this applies to whatever the fuck the original post is about though.
Why would I accept a reality that I think is fucked? No I am not gonna do that.
Yeah but side tangents are fun.
I claim that this particular aspect of reality is actually fine, definitely acceptable and possibly even good. As I said, new/better car safety features do reach the cheapest models within a number years, making it a net good. Of all the things car companies do wrong, such as privacy, I really don't think this is one of them.
As for directly answering you, "Why would I accept a reality that I think is fucked?" -- I think I'm misinterpreting you when I interpret that as you basically living outside of reality. That's an option, I don't think it's a good one.
When I say accept I mean any of the first 4 definitions from Merriam Webster excluding 3c.
My problem isn't with car companies it is with capitalism just to make it clear what I am against.
Alright then :)
Thanks for being my first non-toxic conversation on Lemmy :D