Here's the steps to this dance: 1. Flying car woo gets profiled in NYT 2. Everyone clicks because, hey, flying cars! 3. Investors throw money at "as featured in NYT" startups 4. $400B later, someone will demo 3 wingless "flying cars" on rails in a tunnelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/technology/flying-cars.html …
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But that's the state of innovation in America. Any fun technology targeted at individual wealthy users gets funded, often on promises of regulatory repeal. Meanwhile the most modest attempts at public works, no matter how much they improve quality of life, have no chance.
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but isn’t firing Bezos away from the rest of us an inherently good thing
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Yeah, on the face of it, I hear “firing Bezos into space” and I go “Hell yeah!”
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Eh, we're about 6 months out from Uber inventing the bus again. That's always good for a laugh
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Speaking for LA: If someone would make public transit as mindful of CSAT scores as Uber drivers are, people might stop abandoning public transit as soon as they can afford a car.
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Because you need to become a State Senator or Assemblyman or hold some similar poorly-compensated brutal job. You won't get neither fortune nor fame.
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Because fragmented political leadership and a vetocracy that makes the Sejim look functional
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VCs/investors already have enough money to afford whatever they want, and moderate, low-risk gains hold no interest for them. They are exclusively interested in gambling, and there's a 0% chance that investing in public infrastructure will see them a 1000x return on investment.
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Because the people who control the wealth that could find projects like this either: a) Don't feel their ego stroked by such a project b) Hate the outcome of better, affordable transport making the area more accessible others c) Can't see a way to concentrate wealth from it.
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*fund projects I'll bet if you had a way to frame public transport in a opaque way to VCs (monopoly provider! scalable! disruptive! uses government infrastructure for free!), they'd fund it in a heartbeat if they could abuse pricing.
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