Yes, most people were incredibly frightened at the high speeds of the automobile. It takes a lot of training for people to get used to anticipating things traveling at forty miles per hour.
This is a standard ultra-left denunciation of Eeeeevil Corporations
Corporations are hardly innocent doves. The good life can be endangered from the private sector as well as the public.
This is another bit of contempt for the masses who obstinately refuse to live as you would prefer them to live.
Hey, my contempt is first for the government which bulldozed people's neighborhoods, and only then for those citizens like my hypocritical self who say "problem? What problem?" as we cruise along to our destination.
Second, the question should be open whether the masses are "contemptible," that is, unfit to rule, just as much as it should be a question of whether we personally are contemptible or unfit to rule. Otherwise we are simply being dogmatic democratists.
Yeah, I guess that's why they just didn't sell....
The good life can be endangered from the private sector as well as the public.
Obviously, the people who buy what the corporations are selling have concluding that having those things IS "the good life". The fact that some Vision Of The Anointed may disagree is irrelevant in a free society.
the question should be open whether the masses are "contemptible," that is, unfit to rule
There is no question of "ruling". When I buy a car, I do not exercise "rule" over anyone who prefers to walk.