zawarudo777
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To be frank, as someone who has spent much time in several major US cities over the past year and some change: NYC is the exception, not the rule. Public transport, even or perhaps especially in more notoriously rich and left leaning cities, is a bad joke at best. The only major city in California that can claim to have anything resembling functional public transport is LA, and even then, it's only in certain areas.
Our insistence on not investing in infrastructure has strangely paid off in a big way with this though. Under normal circumstances (who knows what those will even be from here on out), America is a bad joke of an industrialized nation compared to many of its peers; but currently, our vaguely second world country is mostly doing pretty well. Strictly speaking, you can even try free healthcare right now: just don't pay your medical bills and shoot anyone who comes to collect on sight. What are they gonna do, call the cops?
The future is here, and it's dragging us along kicking and screaming.
Our insistence on not investing in infrastructure has strangely paid off in a big way with this though. Under normal circumstances (who knows what those will even be from here on out), America is a bad joke of an industrialized nation compared to many of its peers; but currently, our vaguely second world country is mostly doing pretty well. Strictly speaking, you can even try free healthcare right now: just don't pay your medical bills and shoot anyone who comes to collect on sight. What are they gonna do, call the cops?
The future is here, and it's dragging us along kicking and screaming.