> How did we slip away so far from this being fairly obvious? Cities have worked well this way for hundreds of years. Capitalism. Economies of scale. Taxpayer

> How did we slip away so far from this being fairly obvious? Cities have worked well this way for hundreds of years. Capitalism. Economies of scale. Taxpayer subsidies for car infrastructure. Nowadays Amazon, Uber Eats, etc. Try actually running a local dairy or restaurant or electronics store and see how long it takes for you to be crushed out of existence by people driving to the supermarket 5 km away, or just ordering from VC funded loss-making delivery companies, or the like.