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Re:Small Businesses in Crisis as Rising Numbers Unable to Pa... by lotsofpulp on Sunday June 30, 2024 @05:13PM (#40840425)
>what I don't want is for a central planner to push one path on us when its not clear the right way to go

It is not possible to not have this. Land plots and road grids and design have to be designed for dense living, or less dense living, or rural living. You can’t mix and match.

What we have now is the worst of all worlds, where a little, tiny bit is dense, and then there is an unsustainable medium density where people want to have their cake and eat it too (but physics does not allow for it). And that is where 95% of the population of the world is.

Re:Small Businesses in Crisis as Rising Numbers Unable to Pa... by _heimdall on Sunday June 30, 2024 @08:59PM (#40841683)
> It is not possible to not have this.

That's absolutely false, humanity existed before central planners drew property lines and build state-run roads.

It might be reasonable to say that we can't have what we have today without central planning, but that's a very different discussion. You don't even have to go back that far, most roads were created by people just trying to get from point A to point B, there was no central planner.