In the source material the NCR was portrayed as obviously worse at maintaining basic infrastructure and was causing a comparable amount of death and suffering through pure negligence
wait nvm this allegory is spot on actually
America has done a great job with enforcing public beach access
However, it’s also a world-historic travesty that you can’t just buy a damn iced coffee / beer / hot dog within walking distance of any given beach
You can see here clearly how work during the industrial age was fundamentally different from today’s work regime
Communities like this were dominated by single type enterprises. There was a shared destiny. You could see, viscerally, the step-wise progress of a given project
Precisely because (by current standards) the work was incredibly inefficient and labor intensive, you needed armies of personnel, closely engaged on a single great task. This necessarily engaged a high proportion of the entire local workforce
Today’s economy simply doesn’t work this way. Work is fragmented. People go in a thousand different directions. There’s no cohesive narrative that ties it all together
the fact that california’s plan to build an sf/la train route includes stops in bakersfield and fresno tells you everything you need to know about how serious the project is
I found the builder of the truck in the thumbnail, and just to ruin everyone’s preconceived notions: he’s a Hispanic in the Pacific Northwest who owns an insulation business and probably spent $30k to lift his truck 13” and put it on 30” wheels.
i just do not understand how people can go through life without stuff that needs to be stored in a garage. where do you keep your used oil. your tools. your greasy camp stove. what do you do with your life.