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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent Cities tend to be vulnerable to this effect, which ruins them for long term family and wealth building (which are closely related things). Cars are only incidentally about transportation. A car is a machine that offers leverage in property markets. That’s its primary function. They do move you around but if I could get around without one I’d prefer it that way. The only antidote to this in cities is very liberal zoning and construction policy, and that’s hard to maintain because city residents love seeing their property values rise. Cities tend to become real estate cartels of property owners. It’s easier to get another twenty miles of roads and infrastructure built in the exurbs than to fight political trench warfare against NIMBY urbanites. If you want to blame something for car dependence and sprawl, blame zoning and city planners not cars.