advertising and bribery are awesome tools to help make your dystopia fetishes into reality

work isn’t something anyone is entitled to

rational moderation is a pipedream

Why clock?

there is always a need for extremely low volume medium distance travel, taxis are currently the most public transit-esq option for this

people should be allowed to have fun

that sounds like an ethics problem, the solution to most of those is to get rid of ethics

aside from raspberry pi(s) and phone storage I don’t see any significant reason to justify paying for a more durable SD card

there is evidence it doesn’t work well in some rural areas of the us, specifically Nome Alaska, which had a railroad (last I checked the rails were still there in significant disrepair) that failed because the company ran out of money

do trains work to connect a population of 4,000 540 miles away to a 300,000 person city?

no one wants to be unfairly compensated for the land the government takes from them, the us just has laws that allow the landowners to turn it into a lengthy court battle

to be fair, public transit doesn’t cover even close to the majority of any non-east coast state

where is the line between croud funding and a stock?

they fit with certain aesthetics (mostly other tattoos and piercings) and not much else, but on people with their entire upper body covered in tattoos it can work well

anywhere children could gather in public.

so… everywhere?

then don’t build anything in illinoisi

big farmer wouldn’t like this, and big farmer gives America the corn syrup it needs to survive

didn’t many European countries remove People’s hand for theft a few centuries ago?

bottle water companies would love this, as would the oil giants

to be fair the treaty never specified anything about water, and the Navajo nations should have had better lawyers or better guerilla warfare tactics if they wanted more negotiating power.