Yep. And while you and me might be tapped in to urbanist YouTube or blogs, the people in power are literally 80 years old, can’t use email, and still think that

Yep. And while you and me might be tapped in to urbanist YouTube or blogs, the people in power are literally 80 years old, can’t use email, and still think that cars are better than public transit and walkable neighborhoods. It is a problem of the way we allocate power and how susceptible that is to corruption and control by the wealthy, who would rather have old reliable (to their interests) people in charge than young people who might try to upset the balance of things. The more I notice it the more obvious it becomes. I think a lot about how China is getting better and better at manufacturing and in the USA we’re… well maybe staying the same but really just getting worse. And I think it’s the same issue - old politicians who don’t see what’s going on and aren’t willing to make real change. (And the structures that keep things this way.)