That is a personal attack. It's not appropriate here.
You want to go to Alabama and implement your ideas? Cool. Otherwise, I think it's inappropriate to dismiss the work he chooses to do and assume you, as an outsider, have better armchair solutions.
I grew up in Georgia in a city on the Alabama border. I'm extremely poor and have lived without a car for over a decade.
Insurance for your apartment is not something extremely poor people necessarily have.
Someone very comfortably well-off and living in a bike-oriented locale talked on HN about not wanting to leave their ebike locked up too long in a public place (for fear of it being stolen).* So that's part of where that thought comes from.
I gave up my car while living in Georgia. There were few sidewalks and it was an hour walk to work.
There was a bus stop near my apartment and a bus stop near my job but there was no bus connecting the two. It would have taken more time to take the bus than to walk it.
People who have no actual experience living within the system thinking they can fix fundamental structural societal problems with money is the essence of a savior complex.
If you don't understand the lived experiences of others you have no lever with which to move their world. You can swing your ideological stick all you want to but nothing is gonna happen but tiring yourself out.
First, solve their political problems, their financial problems, their health problems, their access to education problems, their ignorance problems and their self-proclaimed exceptionalism problems.
Once you have done that, then build them to a point where they can engage with their own history from a higher psychological standpoint and THEN you can throw money at the ecological consequences of their transportation issues.
If you do this out of order, you will either have your money appropriated into various contractors and government officials hands or you will find all of your precious ebikes either for sale on ebay within a year or rusting on the side of the road.
That is a personal attack. It's not appropriate here.
You want to go to Alabama and implement your ideas? Cool. Otherwise, I think it's inappropriate to dismiss the work he chooses to do and assume you, as an outsider, have better armchair solutions.
I grew up in Georgia in a city on the Alabama border. I'm extremely poor and have lived without a car for over a decade.
Insurance for your apartment is not something extremely poor people necessarily have.
Someone very comfortably well-off and living in a bike-oriented locale talked on HN about not wanting to leave their ebike locked up too long in a public place (for fear of it being stolen).* So that's part of where that thought comes from.
I gave up my car while living in Georgia. There were few sidewalks and it was an hour walk to work.
There was a bus stop near my apartment and a bus stop near my job but there was no bus connecting the two. It would have taken more time to take the bus than to walk it.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203173