For example I’d love to buy an electric car but they’re just far too expensive for me to be able to afford. I need something, so I get a cheap and 2nd hand car. Inevitably that is an ICE because even second-hand electrics are hugely expensive. Yet somehow I’m the one targeted?
I think the goal is to target people with huge, luxury cars. Anything else doesn't make sense at all.
Win people over, probably not. However, it might discourage people from driving/buying big cars.
Are they really impossible to replace, though?
When you use them for work, not being tied to your computer is really nice.
Well, gold has the added benefit that it has served this purpose for thousands of years.
Would you really count on an extremely complex electronic currency requiring a distributed array of machines to get you through a major crisis?
Bitcoin is still around 30k a pop, so I wouldn't say it's dead yet. But I foresee a big crash in the months or years to come: the hype has passed, and the real uses of crypto are very few. It's also not a good investment since the expected returns are 0. Once people finally realize that, I see the price falling to 1k or even less.
That's not as relevant as it might seem, as producing the car is about half of its lifetime emissions. And producing big cars results in more emissions than more reasonably-sized cars.