To generalize, there have been two main lifestyles for people to follow. Those who follow a "manual transmission" way of life and those who follow an "automatic transmission" way of life.
A "Manual Transmission" way of life is one in which you are responsible for doing for yourself those thing you want done in life. Until the industrial revolution, most people lived a "Manual Transmission" lifestyle whether they wanted to or not.
Some people still live such a lifestyle whether they want to or not in the less industrialized countries.
Some people, even living in industrialized countries, prefer to continue to live a "Manual Transmission" way of life.
Many people consider the "Manual Transmission" way of life to be low tech and physically demanding. Those people are pretty much correct in that. However, in the "Manual Transmission" lifestyle, people have a much greater degree of control over their day to day lives and, for those who choose to live this way, feel more accomplished in their lives and find a satisfaction in being very self sufficient.
The "Automatic Transmission" way of life is one in which many things are done for you. Technology becomes even more important, not only in getting major tasks done, but in most other areas of life as well.
Machines, people, government and even general social activity is largely done with an eye towards people expecting things to be done for them, simplified by having computers, machines and even other people perform tasks they they would not prefer to do themselves.
People who live an "Automatic Transmission" way of life often become dependent on technology and on institutions for things to work smoothly in their lives.
Personally, I am very much a "Manual Transmission" way of life person. Things may be more physically challenging and more time consuming, but I have control over what happens and I am able to live as independently as possible. That's all I ask. Things are usually lower cost and simpler technology so that more people are able to use it and learn it.
If someone else prefers to live an "Automatic Transmission" way of life, that's fine, I have no problem, as long as they aren't expecting me to be the one doing their work for them or providing for them. The advanced technology usually requires more complex learning and complicated tasks that need to be performed.
It is also usually more expensive in terms that the more complexity involved in technology, the more possibilities for breakdown there are.
The problem comes though when a society, a government tries to force everyone within that society to live a give lifestyle, even against their will.
"Planned Obsolescence" is a concept used in technology that came with devising things that could be more easily replaced than repaired. As things become more advanced and cheaper to produce with volume manufacturing and ordering, other items that don't fit that model anymore are done away with and discarded rather than repaired and put back into use.
When governments begin to force people in a society to have to "drive an automatic" vs their stick shift by way of legislating that industry stop making manual transmissions or dramatically fewer of them, then we have a problem.
That is what the U.S. government is doing. It is forcing people to have to adopt an "Automatic Transmission" lifestyle with all of it's increased expenses and complexities whether they can afford it or desire it or not.
Individual liberty is one of the inalienable rights this country is built upon. Of all the things that should be ensured above all else, it is that personal liberty is obstructed the least.
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