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Virtually nothing in this article is cited or backed up with any data at all. Clicking through the links takes me to other pages with similar bold claims and a
by cwhiz 6y ago
Virtually nothing in this article is cited or backed up with any data at all. Clicking through the links takes me to other pages with similar bold claims and a similar lack of citations or data.
Entire site seems to exist to sell me a book or for me to donate money so I can become a "member."
Just what the hell is this doing at the top of Hacker News? Anti-American title so people upvote it straight to the top without even reading it? This is garbage content that isn't even remotely related to tech news.
- TulliusCicero 6y agoThere are various case studies linked here: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme > Anti-American title so people upvote it straight to the top without even reading it? What kind of reflexive jingoism is this? Just because something critiques one aspect of the US doesn't instantly make it "anti-American".
- JW_00000 6y agoIs there a case study comparing American and European cities? Reading the article as a European, I do not find anything that is different from Europe. Also, is going into debt to finance infrastructure really a problem if total debt stays at ~100% of GDP? Overall, the article seems very alarmist ("Something is broken and we all know it.") without any data to back it up.
- cwhiz 6y ago>What kind of reflexive jingoism is this? Just because something critiques one aspect of the US doesn't instantly make it "anti-American" The arguments made in this article are not specific to US cities or towns. Go to virtually any country in the world and it is the same. I can't think of any other reason for this article to have made it to the absolute top of Hacker News. It certainly didn't make it based on the content of the article.