>>510757819 (OP)>1 pbtidI'll answer anyway.
Americans are conditioned from birth to believe that CAR == FREEDOM. This is false, of course: Once you add up the costs of the payment, gas, insurance, maintenance, repairs, registration, parking, etc., it becomes clear that a car is not freedom. Taking the bus is also not freedom since you're bound to the schedule and it takes longer to get somewhere, so the choice comes down to high time preference vs low time preference. As our society decays, high time preference becomes the norm, and Americans will eat ramen just so they can keep making their car payments. By comparison, when I was a kid in the 80s, damn near everyone took the bus, it ran every 15 minutes during peak hours, and ran late enough that 2nd and 3rd shift workers could rely on it, and this is a small city. Now it runs every 30 minutes, and only until 8 p.m. On the bright side, I have the entire bus to myself aside from the occasional elderly person going to the grocery store.
>$1000/month and have to deal with traffic>$48/month for unlimited rides, and can read on the way to and from workI really don't understand why anybody would do this to themselves, but I won't mock them for it; it's your money, do with it what you will.