I agree I find the way society works is really inefficient, we should have more money go into public transit and have a better system for getting places so that we don't all need a car.
It should also be more standard to be able to work from home. A huge amount of jobs could easily be done at home instead of burning energy and time to go back and forth day after day.
Though what I can't get over even more is how many people buy brand new vehicles. That is probably the worse way you can spend 20-40k when a used one worth 1/10th of what it was worth when new will do the same job.
Even if I end up having to put 500 bucks into my car because something major breaks, I know that if it was new, I'd probably be paying that per month anyway, and still have to put money into it when something breaks when past warranty.
My city has a population of about 45k yet the traffic is just ridiculous at 8-9am, 12-1pm and 4-5pm and most of that traffic is people going to/from work. Right now if you want to take public transit, the bus only passes every half hour, in some cases every hour, then you have to transfer, so it can take like 1-2 hours to get anywhere using the bus. Make public transport more efficient and people could perhaps use it more.