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I'd be curious to see a breakdown by age. I can imagine a lot of people under 35 whose experience with capitalism was the great financial crises, the housing crises, and the continued eroding of "safe" jobs. Not to mention the meaninglessness that comes with wage labor. It's no wonder that people increasingly have a less favorable view of capitalism and a more favorable view of an alternate system.

I think the final paragraph of the article sums up the issue pretty well. The tech world spends a lot of thought and energy on trying to escape our current existence instead of trying to make it better. There's very real crises that are solvable like climate change and food security. But instead of working hard to fix those, tech billionaires are focusing on space travel, AI, etc. Things that are important and could have a large (currently vague) impact, but don't solve our long term relationship with our own planet.

That's the way it should be, easy to understand. This set up might be short but it's complex to read.

I think this could largely be an issue with public or VC/PE funded companies. There's plenty of private companies of small/mid size that make plenty of money but don't feel a need to grow excessively. You could think of the local plumbing company, or a small boutique consulting firm. They want to grow, but there's a natural barrier that's hard to cross without becoming a very large company and changing the nature of the company that the owner may be enjoying.

I have always wondered how that would apply to software companies though. If you make something that works really well and everyone wants to buy it, you could grow fairly large financially without needing a ton of people if you just focus on that one program that makes you successful. I imagine it's hard to not feel a need to scale up dramatically when you have millions of users/customers asking for new features.

Why do people drag out trade schools? Sure they can make sense financially, but there's a heavy toll of working with your body instead of sitting in an office chair for work. And the numbers don't lie, college graduates make significantly more than non college grads. You might have loans, but your career trajectory can be much higher with a degree.

I'm surprised funding isn't the number 1 issue across the spectrum. It's abundantly clear the schools near me are already underfunded and also have a 100 million a year budget hole. You can complain about admin and what not, but at the end of the day class sizes are big and schools are being closed. That's a massive funding issue.

Cars still kill people at high speed, human bodies haven't adapted to get hit by cars better.

That's your opinion, sharing a wall but being able to walk or bike easily to everything I need it a huge boost to my quality of life.

You have to change zoning laws in large swaths of the United States to even allow building homes that share walls.

I'm not sure how another urbanizing country choosing cars is evidence against my belief that denser and more walkable cities are better to live in. Places like the Netherlands are choosing to build dense walkable neighborhoods and in my opinion they seem really pleasant.

Okay fair enough, but you understand my point. Some EU countries have higher standards that avoid the issue of hearing your neighbor. I remember watching a tour of a construction site that an american construction manager was going on and the floors were radiant heat, which meant they were 9-12 inches thick of concrete and the walls were also 9 or so inches.

I think when people think of the ideal urban environment, they're thinking 3-6 story mixed use buildings close to the street with tree lined streets. People have an idea of miles of single use suburbs because that's the prevailing model. I'd say almost all urbanists don't want everything to be like downtown.

One of the main issues in cities like Seattle is 76% of the city land area is zoned for single family only. People in Seattle aren't overly worried about what suburban towns are doing, but the city limits itself still has a ton of land area that could be upzoned to drastically increase density. Zoning laws are very much imposing less density on cities.

We still have to build and maintain roads for cars, which has its own emissions. EVs also weigh more and road damage cubes or ^4 with vehicle weight, so EVs also increase the cost and frequency of road repair. EVs are an improvement, but less cars and not needing to own a car is the better choice.