I think it’s their crazy common law system.

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    Yes between the low density and refusal to build transit, which go hand in hand, suburban car dependant planning has destroyed the livibility and affordability of many cities.

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      This from the thn Australian Prime Minister in 1972. We did the exact opposite and now have a 2nd rate American system

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      It’s the neoliberal fever dream that unregulated market mechanisms can build a better world. It’s the socioeconomic theory that unfettered psychopathy is a guiding light, and the high priests of this religion pray the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t a train. (Or that they died wealthy of old age before things ever got too bad for them.)