Business schools use a metaphor about selling power tools that is something like this: When a carpenter goes into a store to buy a power drill, he doesn't need a better drill: he needs holes.

Considering transportation lockdown is saying "We're going to prevent you from having holes instead of finding efficient ways to make them or eliminate the need." We actually need to crack down on the wasted resources and carbon dioxide production. What puts people where they need to be? How do we eliminate the desire for useless transportation? We don't need cars. We have allowed profiteers to set up systems that use cars to collect money from people who want to be in places that, for the most part, they don't need to be in the first place. We have a system of housing that puts people in boxes in order to sell them isolation from a place, rather than putting them where they are useful to a place. We make people purchase cars to get to jobs when we should be making corporations provide transportation. The scale of wasted work and resources is tremendous, yet we blame the individual for participation and claim that they "desire freedom of movement", even as they are saturated with advertising to get them to move (buy a car, get on a plane to some disease-ridden tropical island, etc) even when it was the last thing on their mind before they saw it on TV. We now have generational habits of waste that economists call "needs" that really are just profit-seeking stupidity.

People need to be useful to the future of their places and each other, and they need to learn to enjoy simple satisfaction in life instead of a depression-generating perpetual "pursuit of happiness." As long as we are convinced that wasting resources is "freedom", then all manner of tools are invented to profit from that waste.

https://medium.com/@auntiegrav/stupidest-pyramid-scheme-ever-7ad8d1ab73c4