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There are benefits and costs to diversity. We invented jazz music and snowboarding. And the Internet. They get social cohesion and political buy-in for (rela
by rsync 7y ago
There are benefits and costs to diversity.
We invented jazz music and snowboarding. And the Internet.
They get social cohesion and political buy-in for (relatively) progressive transportation and health initiatives.
I, like the author, have urban envy when I visit Copenhagen (and Zurich and Tokyo). But if I had to choose, I'd choose inventing jazz.
- sfthrower89 7y agoI'd take a livable city and a happier, less violent populace over Mingus any day.
- goto11 7y agoAre you comparing the US to a single city? Why not compare the whole of Europe to Minneapolis and see who made most inventions?