What you actually hate are modern roads. You just don’t realize it.
Roads, as they are now, are nothing more than trillion dollar subsidies to the big automotive companies (which, up until the 1980s, were predominantly American in the US… that might have been the point). Without these trillion dollar subsidies, there’d be nowhere much to drive cars, and no one would buy them (supposing anyone even tried to sell them). Though pollution and carbon dioxide might still be a large and extreme problem, one does wonder how much smaller it might be if there had been no cars.
Government, creating perverse incentives since 4000 BC, with no one noticing.
If you haven’t heard of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer yet, it’s a really good read to understand how things got to be the way they are. The road to hell was paved with good intentions, but at every opportunity we’ve doubled down on critically flawed designs.
What you actually hate are modern roads. You just don’t realize it.
Roads, as they are now, are nothing more than trillion dollar subsidies to the big automotive companies (which, up until the 1980s, were predominantly American in the US… that might have been the point). Without these trillion dollar subsidies, there’d be nowhere much to drive cars, and no one would buy them (supposing anyone even tried to sell them). Though pollution and carbon dioxide might still be a large and extreme problem, one does wonder how much smaller it might be if there had been no cars.
Government, creating perverse incentives since 4000 BC, with no one noticing.
If you haven’t heard of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer yet, it’s a really good read to understand how things got to be the way they are. The road to hell was paved with good intentions, but at every opportunity we’ve doubled down on critically flawed designs.