@sickburnbro @Diogenese_Shiplap @doonxib >more complicated than that
Oh, for sure. America came up in a technological world, and we adapted to it quickly and well. As soon as the automobile showed up, we adopted it like nobody else. Partially because "cars, cool!", but also because the US is damned large and we spread out fast.

The crap we're dealing with now is because we had the technology (and wealth) to kick the can down the road. City is a hellhole filled with Browns? La-di-da, we'll just build a shitbox off the next exit down the highway.

Welp, the bill has come due. Heritage America is atomized in residential zoned suburbs out in the sticks, utterly dependent on cheap energy, living on quarter acre zero lot line lots, and subsidizing the big Globohomo international corporations that are killing our local industry because "I just want to make one trip".