>>Yeah, take Manhattan for example. One of those places where it doesn't make sense to have a car, the cost and risk are high and benefits absent. So there are folks who have no drivers licenses for three generations in a row.
>>Or, perhaps not ghettos but there are people who simply don't want to drive, or can't - for various personal or medical reasons.
Driving is one thing. But without ID, they can't fly on commercial aircraft or even get on a Greyhound bus. Lack of ID is a recipe for serfdom, unable to escape the bounds of poverty.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
