Re:Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis
by Cederfjard on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:23PM
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As we figure out how to live sustainably with ten billion people (or wherever the population will cap out) with higher and higher standards, perhaps certain people’s preferences isn’t what we should optimize for. Maybe if you want to live far away from others, you’ll have to bear the true cost of the externalities associated with that. So yes, you can live in the sticks, but running that car of yours is going to cost you. If you won’t or can’t pay for that, stay in the city with everyone else and live efficiently.
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Re:Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis
by s0rce on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:52PM
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I'm tired of subsidizing rural people, the communities are unsutainable, particularly in the west where they have extreme fire risk.
Re:Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis
by bliteben on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:19PM
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Where did you get this insane idea that subsidizing actual farming and agriculture is a bad idea? Do you not like eating or being alive? I agree the subsidies are probably not 100% efficient but the intent is to keep you alive in times of famine or worldwide catastrophe.
We don't live in a planned society and many many people have made mistakes about where to farm / raise livestock in the US. The good news is they usually eventually give up if the place is unsuitable, sometimes there are outsize subsidies that allow bad practices to go on forever, but in general it does correct itself. That land eventually (especially in non desert areas) returns back to its norm, where badly planned cities will take a much longer timescale to return back to nature.