He really went off the deep-end in the last paragraph. Transportation has been getting much cheaper adjusted for inflation, regardless of whether one looks at

He really went off the deep-end in the last paragraph. Transportation has been getting much cheaper adjusted for inflation, regardless of whether one looks at bicycles, cars, subway tickets, train tickets, plane flights or cargo shipping. Any blind assertion that all these things will get more expensive is difficult to take seriously. Ditto for his comments about living in "closer communities" and individuals growing their own grapefruit. I suppose if the advance of technology ground to a halt, it could happen. What's far more likely, though, is that manufacturing and transportation will both continue to get cheaper, communities will be even less bound by geography and people who grow their own grapefruit won't be doing so for economic reasons.