This article discusses how a lack of innovation and government investment has led to an increase in commutes since the 1960s because private industry has no incentive to truly innovate, only adapt and sightly improve on existing models.
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Here is a non-paywall version. https://archive.ph/gcYEL
Looks like he wrote this article for his book on this that is coming out on Oct 24th: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/217260/ours-was-the-shining-future-by-david-leonhardt/
Great article - some of those points really hit hard
I never could figure out what it says about my politics that we really need a lot more investment from gov’t and that muddied things even more
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Look up 12 foot ladder
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Oh damn, that sucks. I see another user has posted a link to an archived version
12ft.io took the page from OG AdBlock and started offering to turn off their service for newspapers that are willing to pay for it.
Archive.is is a much better alternative, albeit a bit slower.
I had no idea, thanks
Looks like we’re going to need a 24 foot ladder.
What you mean breathing all that air pollution might have a direct cost
