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> I am glad that we have you to tell people that what they want is bad, and that they should want something else instead. Suburbia and cars were massively subs
by panick21_ 3y ago
> I am glad that we have you to tell people that what they want is bad, and that they should want something else instead.
Suburbia and cars were massively subsidized by the government and have a very high cost for society.
I don't want to tell people what to do, but if a damaging thing is subsidized, suggesting that subsidizing something else might be better isn't much of a stretch.
- eru 3y ago> Suburbia and cars were massively subsidized by the government and have a very high cost for society. Yes, and you can probably predict my opinion of those subsidies. So I'm not sure why you strawman me to be in favour of suburbia, or subsidies for suburbia? (Btw, I think we should shift more of the funding for roads onto usage fees for them. Ie toll roads. The technology for road usage tracking has become a lot better and cheaper in the last few decades.) > I don't want to tell people what to do, but if a damaging thing is subsidized, suggesting that subsidizing something else might be better isn't much of a stretch. Two wrongs don't make a right. Just drop both subsidies. It's the same thing with free trade: unilateral free trade is optimal, no matter whether the other guys insists on damaging their own economy with protectionism. So mutual 'trade agreements' are useless. (Or should be.)