NEW: 🛞 Tires 🛞 illustrate why #inflation refuse to, well, deflate.
To prove it @ProPublica sent a reporter to a rubber plantation in #Vietnam and a small business in southern #Louisiana.
Many takeaways, but a less obvious one: dependency on #cars is killing us.
Riding your #bike is coded as an "elite" activity, but imagine paying $500 for new wheels every year and a half 😵💫
@HaruCoryne @ProPublica My penny pinching ass on a bike is now "elitist"?! Huh, TIL.
@tobi @HaruCoryne @ProPublica Yes, because most urban/suburban areas aren't designed for bikes, so living somewhere where biking is even an option is, to a small degree, "elitist".
Now, riding your bike to the bus and then riding the bus across town to work every day... that's how the "real" poor folks live.
