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Make cars unusable first, and then a decade later a decent public transit system will arise.
by gress 13y ago
Make cars unusable first, and then a decade later a decent public transit system will arise.
- wmf 13y agoI don't think a lost decade is what low-income people need right now.
- dllthomas 13y agoI'd interpreted that as about 60% of the point.
- gress 13y agoExactly - making things harder for people as a way to stimulate the market to cause change just makes the world a nastier place.
- dllthomas 13y agoSure, but in this case it's "doing less to warp the market in ways that make it easier for particular people". Regardless you've got to think about who will take up the slack and how while things adjust, though.
- gress 13y agoI think we are still tinning about markets in Newtonian terms, where in reality they are relativistic - everything warps the market.
- DougWebb 13y agoOr, a perfectly good community will have turned into a wasteland where no one can live.
- gress 13y agoIndeed, or a haven for people who can use Uber for all transport.