(December 17, 2018 at 10:41 pm)Aegon Wrote: Do you think we made a mistake building around car usage, and not establishing communities with expanded public transportation and walkability? Streetcars, trains, subways... did we fuck up a century ago? I think we might have. Cars suck.
One could similarly argue we made a cultural mistake adopting fire.
But if progress itself is a positive good than arguing ex post whether a better path not visible a priori should have been taken is an barren exercise.