I assume you were being downvoted because your comment claims to be specifically rebutting a claim in the parent, but doesn't do that, and instead just sets up

I assume you were being downvoted because your comment claims to be specifically rebutting a claim in the parent, but doesn't do that, and instead just sets up a soap box for you to pontificate from. I'm not going to waste the time dissecting it in detail, but your comment is full of not-quite-sensical comparisons ("[S]ubsidized society" vs. "free society"? Intercity highways are "unwise"--where do cities get food?) and provocative language ("Suburbs require gigantic subsidies"--so do cities, right, even if smaller per capita? Suburbs are "luxuries"?).