Moses' innovation was getting the poor to unwittingly fund the segregation, looting the cities to fund the suburbs. An innovation then copied nationwide. I'd o

Moses' innovation was getting the poor to unwittingly fund the segregation, looting the cities to fund the suburbs. An innovation then copied nationwide. I'd only be guessing, but I think the highways and freeways were then defunded in turn because those same financiers couldn't figure out how to profit from further investment. Or maybe they decided to end their partnership with organized labor. Or maybe cashing in other rent seeking opportunities, like ending usury protections enabling explosion of consumer debt, were more promising. Who knows.