California’s ambitious statewide electric bicycle incentive program is officially dead – and it didn’t even get a funeral. After years...

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California’s ambitious statewide electric bicycle incentive program is officially dead – and it didn’t even get a funeral. After years…

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    They’re just complaining incoherently and counter-productively about coupons for bikes. The obfuscatory terminology (eg. demand side policy, perverse incentives) indicates a lib brainwashed by economic pseudo-science. There’s nothing “perverse” about riding bikes and saving the planet. It’s just nonsense econ jargon developed precisely to serve capital/cars. Note the extreme lack of any better idea.

    Bonus boomer points for hating on solar panels.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Lib. Right. Me arguing that direct industry incentives ala China and India to actually solve your problems from a supply side instead of demand side incentives that just enrich middlemen while solving Jack Shit is totally a neolib position, not a materialist heterodox one.