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Mostly agree. The problem with monocausal issue is that it also touches everything. To really address it, there is no monocausal solution. - Taxation policy
by panick21_ 4y ago
Mostly agree.
The problem with monocausal issue is that it also touches everything.
To really address it, there is no monocausal solution.
- Taxation policy (Land Value Tax)
- Transportation policy local and federal level
- Services policy (police, social services)
- Land use policy (mixed-use, multi-fam homes and so on)
Problem is many of these institutional systems were developed or revolutionized in the exact wrong moment, in the 50/60. So that many standards and standard way of doing things have encoded the exact wrong solution.
Traffic engineering is a particular victim of this. Everything is done by a book of standards, and the standards are just totally wrong.
- milkytron 4y ago> Problem is many of these institutional systems were developed or revolutionized in the exact wrong moment, in the 50/60. In addition, because of the way the policies were made and allowed select people to get rich from these policies, those people now use their money and power to further entrench these policies to keep their own power and money. The auto industry wants continued government subsidies for roads, vacant land owners want to continue property tax instead of land value tax, etc. It's like we've dug a massive hole and some of us see a way out, but many people with the tools are still digging.