Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M
by closeparen on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:59PM
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>why not put the pressure on the companies that are driving the influx of workers and out of control cost of living?
You're going to need some extremely powerful public policy interventions to push back on a force as powerful in human civilization as urbanization.
It's so much better for society and for the individuals who currently don't live in major cities to centralize into them. You're going to need some extreme regulation to reverse the incentives that have driven the push towards cities worldwide and for thousands of years.
And for what? To protect a relatively tiny constituency of people who currently live in cities and want them to stay small, against the giant national/worldwide population that wants economic opportunity, and to use its resources for something other than cars?
You're going to need some extremely powerful public policy interventions to push back on a force as powerful in human civilization as urbanization.
It's so much better for society and for the individuals who currently don't live in major cities to centralize into them. You're going to need some extreme regulation to reverse the incentives that have driven the push towards cities worldwide and for thousands of years.
And for what? To protect a relatively tiny constituency of people who currently live in cities and want them to stay small, against the giant national/worldwide population that wants economic opportunity, and to use its resources for something other than cars?