Why It’s So Hard for Us to Subtract
Peoples & Things
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The Growth Ponzi Scheme and the Ribbon Cutting Paradox
The way US infrastructure policies set up is that the federal government makes it super cheap and even free for localities to borrow or take money to build infrastructure. But then what's happening is that municipalities are signing up to maintain and repair that structure forever, you know, until you retire the system basically. In a sense, because we don't make the costs of addition really evident, but I was just thinking about, and I feel like there's all kinds of places in our culture where we really is, if there's incentives to add, and subtracting is just not incentivized in the same way. The square footage is like, that's us doing it to ourselves. That's how much
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