There's a "slowly turning our world into hell the more we release" angle here too

I think it's new suburbs spreading people out and lowering the odds you'd be living next to someone from work

I think "Ascent of the A-Word" by Geoffrey Nunberg really captured part of the rise of this culture.

Because someone wanted to own Mickey Mouse for as long as possible it meant using most IP was complicated or impossible, so people started doing it anyway as long as the creator was small enough to not be able to hire a lawyer, now they just make a computer do that instead, but it's all kinda melty

Just like so many things in the US, setting up a regulatory system where something is artificially over valued creates an incentive for a solution that runs a circle around it

But that comes with lots of trade-offs

It's very easy to measure, it's $9. That's the whole point. All the negative aspects go down and in their place is just a price.

I spend far too much time looking at government auctions trying to get one of those for cheap

I think that's not clear cut though because people speeding down an arterial in a black neighborhood are often not from that neighborhood (they're commuting though it) while the people endangered are.

Rail is more energy efficient for sure, but if you count the rails between cities, I think the total land used is going to be more for rail

Doing the quick math on this, Hartsfield is 7.3 sq mi. You could fit 481 miles of the narrowest section of the northeast corridor in that area.

Trains are better than flights for sure, but it does seem a little unfair to ignore the miles of track. I wonder how many miles of track could fit in that airport footprint though

Gas should be more expensive though. This just isn't the way it should be

Same thing with hating people biking. Drivers don't get mad with people driving cars they think are shitty

I like RIPTA's wave and While I don't think it's the best, Phoenix has the Copper Card