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Yeah it’s a bit troubling. My hope is that it causes us to look at what we can do to make our cities more encouraging to social interaction. Fill in the missing

Yeah it’s a bit troubling. My hope is that it causes us to look at what we can do to make our cities more encouraging to social interaction. Fill in the missing middle housing, make them more human centric, etc. It’s going to take at least a generation for that to happen though.

Gigachad 3y ago
I wish that would happen, but honestly I see it all getting progressively worse. Offices cost lots of money so there is a pressure to reduce them. Universities are getting rid of in person lectures and classes to replace them with cheaper standardized online content. Social media, VR, and gaming is becoming increasingly engaging. And the cost of going out and doing things in person is becoming increasingly prohibitive. Local governments are becoming increasingly poor and unable to sustain unnecessary facilities like libraries and free hang out spaces. I don't think this is a problem the free market can solve since sense of community and socialization doesn't generate revenue efficiently. We need to start using tax money to build more free public spaces and public transport to get people connected.
- WalterBright 3y ago
  There was much more of a sense of community when the government was a lot smaller and the market was much free'er.
  - The_Colonel 3y ago
    Is it just historical correlation or do you imply casuation?
  - Kye 3y ago
    I refer you to the pirates/average global temperature graph.
- anon291 3y ago
  > We need to start using tax money to build more free public spaces and public transport to get people connected. All the original public transit projects (including my own streetcar suburb and corresponding streetcar), were privately funded. What governments need to do is make it clear that they will expedite permits for these projects and not put up roadblocks or attempt to extract profit from the investors.

Gigachad 3y ago

I wish that would happen, but honestly I see it all getting progressively worse. Offices cost lots of money so there is a pressure to reduce them. Universities are getting rid of in person lectures and classes to replace them with cheaper standardized online content. Social media, VR, and gaming is becoming increasingly engaging. And the cost of going out and doing things in person is becoming increasingly prohibitive. Local governments are becoming increasingly poor and unable to sustain unnecessary facilities like libraries and free hang out spaces. I don't think this is a problem the free market can solve since sense of community and socialization doesn't generate revenue efficiently. We need to start using tax money to build more free public spaces and public transport to get people connected.

WalterBright 3y ago
There was much more of a sense of community when the government was a lot smaller and the market was much free'er.
- The_Colonel 3y ago
  Is it just historical correlation or do you imply casuation?
- Kye 3y ago
  I refer you to the pirates/average global temperature graph.
anon291 3y ago
> We need to start using tax money to build more free public spaces and public transport to get people connected. All the original public transit projects (including my own streetcar suburb and corresponding streetcar), were privately funded. What governments need to do is make it clear that they will expedite permits for these projects and not put up roadblocks or attempt to extract profit from the investors.