It’s not like children could use a lawn to play on or anything…
And our Public transit system is totally ready for nobody to have cars… Our GDP totally won’t fall to 10% is what it was before once nobody can go to work.
First of all, this is about how suburbs are bad, not about how rural areas are bad. Nobody’s saying everybody should live only in cities.
Second, the issue isn’t one of “mentality;” it’s one of economics. It isn’t that you’re wrong for wanting to live in a house with a yard; it’s that you aren’t entitled to have the rest of society subsidize your choice.
Suburbanites are welfare queens benefiting from the most massive Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, and it has to stop before we bankrupt ourselves (let alone destroy ourselves via suburbs-induced climate change).
![[meme] Lawns and car storage — name a more wasteful use of land](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c6a93d55-ab0b-4275-bd92-43931e7b7d77.jpeg){kind=link}
It’s not like children could use a lawn to play on or anything…
And our Public transit system is totally ready for nobody to have cars… Our GDP totally won’t fall to 10% is what it was before once nobody can go to work.
If only there were easily acessible public spaces where kids could play in. Alas, we had to bulldoze those for lawns and parking lots.
People should live in cities or not at all…
… according to
Reddit.2Lemmy.The one-size-fits-all mentalities frequently preached here (and there) are where I check out of the political ideology.
First of all, this is about how suburbs are bad, not about how rural areas are bad. Nobody’s saying everybody should live only in cities.
Second, the issue isn’t one of “mentality;” it’s one of economics. It isn’t that you’re wrong for wanting to live in a house with a yard; it’s that you aren’t entitled to have the rest of society subsidize your choice.
Suburbanites are welfare queens benefiting from the most massive Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, and it has to stop before we bankrupt ourselves (let alone destroy ourselves via suburbs-induced climate change).