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> The company can contribute to making Cupertino a functional and wonderful "city". It is neither of those things now with its car-centric configuration and lac
by stephencanon 10y ago
> The company can contribute to making Cupertino a functional and wonderful "city". It is neither of those things now with its car-centric configuration and lack of enough housing construction.
The car-centric configuration is what most of the current residents want (if they wanted something else, they would choose to live somewhere else). Since they control a majority voting block in city politics, there's very little that Apple can do to change that; significant changes to the status quo will be blocked by the city residents.
- jamespitts 10y agoWhat is "want"? And why does it have to be so immovable? We can't always walk away from what we do or where we live. Car-centric, earth-wasting behavior is ostensibly what we want, because most of us engage in it every day. So is sugar soda and processed food, lack of exercise, and any number of unhealthy things we do. So is paying huge amounts of money for a house, then fighting any new development near our neighborhood out of self interest. It is possible for people to essentially be trapped in a situation in which rational choices are a bad ones. How might we break out of that?