idio3
10mo ago
Do you want suburban housing demolished and larger capacity units built instead?
That would be ideal. Larger capacity also fixes the mass transit problem, as denser areas are much easier and more cost-effective to connect.
I don't see how an extra hour of free time per week per household would change anything in the grand calculus of life.
As part of a grand realignment it would actually be quite significant. Keep in mind that commute would also significantly decrease (denser, closer, better transit, etc) and public spaces would improve.
idio3
10mo ago
You’ve jumped through the hoops, tried your best, earned the status symbols and are trying to wrest some meaning from your life.
...and that meaning comes from a lawn? Christ... What a miserable conception of a meaning...
idio3
10mo ago
What would it take for me to empathize with these guys?
Perhaps a lobotomy.
Cui bono? Whose incentives got us into this situation?
That is a very complicated issue with multiple factors. Partially it was a planned marketing campaign by a number of industries. Partially it was mass racist hysteria, and partially this hysteria was manufactured or at least aggravated by some well-meaning, but objectively misguided policies.
This is a very interesting discussion to have.
What might right-thinking people do to fix the mess?
Well, on one hand it looked like it was slowly getting a bit better, with gentrification and expansion of public transport into something that isn't inherently a meme. But then 2020 events happened, each of which has done a lot to reverse the recent gains. Fixing it would require a number of centralized (not local) policies now.
Why am I anywhere near Cook County?
Why wouldn't you be?
Vast majority of these issues are created via horrifically failed social policies. While bums and whatnot are always going to be present under any social system where the need to keep the ruled in fear is paramount for its continued existence - having a less despicable middle class whose insecurities don't cause them to adopt as ghoulish of policies typically helps with having them at least somewhat contained, even in places that aren't nearly as wealthy.
But, of course, as long as the system continues to require a terrifyingly downtrodden underclass to scare the general mass into compliance - bums will continue to exist in the cities. In the cities, because their survival depends on being in areas of dense foot traffic. That's hardly a legitimate reason to retreat to the unbelievably lame dystopia of the endless lawn...
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