Global Gridlock: How the World’s Obsession with ‘Drive’ Became the Last Universal Currency—And Possibly the Final Traffic Jam
Drive, the noun, not the verb, has become the planet’s most over-caffeinated export. Every continent now manufactures its own boutique strain—Silicon Valley’s jittery hustle, Shenzhen’s 996 martyr complex, Lagos’ “hustle culture” with matching Spotify playlist, Berlin’s ironic start-up sloganeering delivered over oat-milk flat whites. We are, all seven point nine billion of us, trapped in…