knexcar

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I live in Madison and everyone seems to have the same liberal political views, I almost never meet someone who opposes liberal/leftist ideals. All my friends are trans and some of my friends/coworkers even like Linux. we rarely encounter hostility, though I’d like to venture out more. It gets tiring when everyone agrees yet we can’t even solve the housing crisis.

Based on this Polymatter video, seems like it was mostly an exaggeration of different systems (suggestion for cities to encourage heathy behavior like not smoking cigarettes being conflated with punishments for rich people who don’t pay fines), and not really the 1984-style punishment for “thought crimes” that Americans seemed to think.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kqov6F00KMc&ra=m

Hard to believe it can get worse than somewhere like Arlington, TX (or any of the many other semi suburban places in America with NO public transit (as in not a single public bus or greyhound-type a day). I feel like 70 year lease would help stop the rich from hoarding generational wealth and giving it to their kids, allowing everyone a chance at getting a house when the parents die, though not sure how well it works in practice.

Not to mention, the ”Capitalism Bad™” circlejerk gets tiring real quick. Like I know giving people the freedom to buy and sell goods and services with currency can result in negative externalities, but with government lobbying, foreign trade, and a large variety of different industries, the issue is far more complex and nuanced than most people seem to act like.

on Well, I tried. · c/memes · 4 pts · 30d

Most places I’ve visited don’t have trams, but there’s sometimes a bus service.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/games · 3 pts · 35d

Have you tried Workers and Resources yet? It’s janky as heck but has some unique ideas that no other city builder does (like the real-time building).

Also I feel like Cities: Skylines 2 being a letdown is a pretty common opinion, Colossal Order has really gone downhill.