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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not wrong at all.

But this is basically as radical of a suggestion as banning cars lol. We'd have to have affordable housing, jobs, social services, food and resources, etc. available for those trying to migrate into cities. Most US cities don't even have those things for the people that already live there - almost always due to NIMBY regulations with some good old fashion bigotry mixed in.

We would basically have to first see a massive change in governance trends before this could be doable.

Of course, this is entirely ignoring the cultural challenges.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We would basically have to first see a massive change in governance trends before this could be doable.

I guess you can wait until the economic ponzi game ends for those places and people abandon it:

infrastructure decay, no repairs
cars break down more, good luck paying for repairs
speed drops necessarily
no chance that fuel is decreasing in price, whether it's fossil juice or whatever the electricity is coming from

As people give in* and leave, this decay accelerates as the measly taxes cover even less of the required maintenance.

The politics people are avoiding now will be orders of magnitude worse when it comes time to do bailouts.