0 sats \ 3 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 5 Feb \ parent \ on: Edmonton Lays Out Plan For ''15 Minutes Cities'' news
Idk if you take the other extreme of this, corporations and governments have been totally fine letting people live unbalanced lives in the other direction for decades -- living in ring cities around main cities with poor infrastructure, commuting hours each way to work. This is common in Ontario, Canada for example.
I have no problem believing that they're willing to lean hard the other way if it is to the benefit of corporations and tax revenue, now that larger scale monetary trends are coming home to roost.
Since people can't afford fuel/energy and service debt due to garbage fiat currency and poor capital investment, the government prints more funny money and "invests in infrastructure" where fewer and fewer people have the capability to own their own vehicles, but the wealth extraction gets more concentrated into fewer companies. It doesn't seem like a conspiracy theory, it seems like a logical conclusion.
i have no idea where you all suddenly got the feeling that the state can regulate urban planning, commercial settlements, retail, housing better than the free market. for god's sake, let people, investors, traders and entrepreneurs decide where to settle in a decentralized manner in the free play of forces. i have lived my whole life in big cities in southern europe in central europe and have never had the feeling that i lacked anything spatially or materially. the state has never prescribed a concept here, it has merely made areas available on which people could then develop relatively freely. please never forget this: when such projects appear, state actors are only interested in imposing more control, more power, perhaps higher taxation.
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reading comprehension jfc