Pedestrian and cyclist friendly cities have more vibrant street life, and are more attractive places to live. I've never heard of car restrictions leading to more suburbanization.
You are assuming that financial markets are fair and transparent. They're not as everyone is seeing in, for example, private credit asset valuations. The value extracted when securities fraud and market manipulation take place is millions of times bigger than other kinds of property crime. This is just a civil case, but there oughta be a criminal case with penalties proportionate to the value stolen.
Starlink is the worst case of a deceptive EBITDA story having no path to a GAAP profit or free cash flow. The IPO needs to happen before people realize that the satellites that are being counted as an asset spread the deception throughout the organization, including what many people see as a big technological and profitability success in the Falcon 9 business.
If Starlink isn't generating self-sustaining income from subscribers, it can't possibly be the source of cash to refurbish Falcon 9 boosters.
You were right in broad strokes, but buses are too much like collective action for the taste of Americans. The most optimistic outcome I can think of is that people start buying large quantities of E bikes and pressure their towns to use all that space in their stroads to accommodate bike lanes.
The people in the US chose chaos. Maybe we need a harsh lesson not to do that. If we are permitted to vote this November, we'll get an indication whether or not we've learned anything.
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