I am reading a phenomenal book: The Party’s Over. Here is an excerpt about transportation. Specifically the car. Which I have a strong distaste for. I will go as far as to say that I have strong feelings in my hatred towards the car than I do for anything else on the planet:

Henry Ford, America’s most prominent automotive industrialist, proposed making cars so cheap so that anyone could own one. Ford made sure to pay his factory workers enough so that they could afford to buy a coupe or sedan for themselves. However, as inexpensive as the Model T was by today’s standards, it still represented a cash outlay beyond the means of most American families.

Automated, fuel-fed mass production was proving capable of turning out goods in such high quantity as to overwhelm the existing demand. Until this time, the average family owned few manufactured goods other than small items such as cutlery, plates, bowls, window glass, and hand tools. Virtually none had motorized machines, which were simply too expensive for the typical family budget. The industrialists’ solutions to this problem were advertising and credit. More than any other product, the automobile led to the dramatic expansion, during the 1920s, of both the advertising industry and consumer debt.