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Date Posted: 10:53:44 3/21/23 Tue
Author: Jasper
Subject: Governor Whitmer and the shape of things to come.

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For the same reason these authoritarians always “ask” when they mean tell (and you’d better, or else). They engage in these etymological obfuscations for the obvious reasons. They prefer to pretend (and that you agree) they are merely sagacious “leaders” and they are being willingly followed on account of their . . .”leadership.”

“Mobility” being another such.

It sounds like what it seems to mean. That being – essentially – freedom of movement, being able to get wherever you need to go on your own terms. The thing which personally owned (and untethered) cars gave people – average people – for the past 100-plus years. But when someone like Whitmer – and for that matter, the car industry, today – uses the term it means something else.

Something contrary.

It is a term often used interchangeably with a phrase – transportation as a service – which is perhaps a bit too explicit and so obvious and hence the preference for the more benign-sounding, almost anodyne term.

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2023/03/21/mobility-leadership/

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