…how humans figured this shit out decades ago. And still, under capitalist governments, it takes billions of dollars and years to make something as good as this.
It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they won’t. I mean look at Amsterdam. It took protests and action and an oil crisis to get them to redesign the city [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422421000769]. If you leave the ruling class to their devices you end up with people like NYC’s Robert Moses
What gets me about capitalist civil planning is how they won’t even copy successful ideas in other cities or countries and insist on reinventing the wheel each time.
More money that will circulate through the city bureaucrats’ and politicians’ hands.
it takes billions of dollars and years to make something as good
the keyword is “billions of dollars”…nothing is useful in capitalism is someone is not getting filthy rich with something, people getting something benefical? that won’t do it
