<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randomProducer</author><text>I feel the same. The amount of poor neighborhoods with brand new cars rolling around really depresses me. As someone who grew up pretty poor it always fascinated me that my family and neighbors would buy cars worth 20k - 30k which would be enough to provide a very basic&amp;#x2F;safe way of living for the foreseeable future. I would take the peace of mind I would of had over having a status symbol that random people on the highway could look at for a few seconds on a trip.&lt;p&gt;Also driving is such a waste of human potential, I don&amp;#x27;t think the amount of attention needed to drive safely is worth the monotony&amp;#x2F;tediousness of driving. It&amp;#x27;s wasted time on a large scale.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bredren</author><text>I’m hopeful many people will wake up to the misery that cars and commuting inflicts on themselves.&lt;p&gt;The United States has been consumed with car culture which has bled time and resources from individuals like yourself. But it also is responsible for endless tragedy in the form of accidents and financial overextension.&lt;p&gt;Car culture, partly driven by commuting, has inflated the need for some systems and created entire rent-seeking businesses that could be any number of more useful and interesting investments of human time and capital.&lt;p&gt;I believe a silver lining of the Coronavirus and the actions of political representatives and appointees that have allowed covid to foster will ultimately result in progression in many outdated norms we experienced up through 2020.</text></item><item><author>alyandon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m technically working longer because I&amp;#x27;m not spending 70-120 additional minutes of each day commuting 14 miles to&amp;#x2F;from the office.  Despite working longer, I still end up having more free time.&lt;p&gt;It is amazing how I manage to rationalize sitting in traffic for that amount of time every day to myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People work longer and different hours under lockdown</title><url>https://workplaceinsight.net/people-work-longer-and-different-hours-under-lockdown/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brightball</author><text>There’s a big difference between car culture and commuting though.&lt;p&gt;Having a car comes with a great deal of utility and freedom.&lt;p&gt;Commuting is almost entirely driven by city centers and population density that inflates real estate&amp;#x2F;rent costs so high that living out farther and driving in seems to not only make sense, but be the rational choice.&lt;p&gt;Aside from having a sales office in a densely populated area, there’s almost no real value to other functions of a business being located in the middle of a huge city.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bredren</author><text>I’m hopeful many people will wake up to the misery that cars and commuting inflicts on themselves.&lt;p&gt;The United States has been consumed with car culture which has bled time and resources from individuals like yourself. But it also is responsible for endless tragedy in the form of accidents and financial overextension.&lt;p&gt;Car culture, partly driven by commuting, has inflated the need for some systems and created entire rent-seeking businesses that could be any number of more useful and interesting investments of human time and capital.&lt;p&gt;I believe a silver lining of the Coronavirus and the actions of political representatives and appointees that have allowed covid to foster will ultimately result in progression in many outdated norms we experienced up through 2020.</text></item><item><author>alyandon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m technically working longer because I&amp;#x27;m not spending 70-120 additional minutes of each day commuting 14 miles to&amp;#x2F;from the office.  Despite working longer, I still end up having more free time.&lt;p&gt;It is amazing how I manage to rationalize sitting in traffic for that amount of time every day to myself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>People work longer and different hours under lockdown</title><url>https://workplaceinsight.net/people-work-longer-and-different-hours-under-lockdown/</url></story>