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Swapping out a component is vastly less complex than swapping out an entire system.

I'd love to see high-density, walkable, transitable, low-distance development in more places.

That would mean rebuilding the entire urban landscape, rewrites of layers upon layers of building codes and obligations, a writeoff of a vast amount of equity within the financial system, changing patterns of habits and desires, and more. You're involving every suburban homeowner everywhere, every city, county, state/provincial, and national government. The real estate lobby. Banks. Builders. Building suppliers. Architects.

Good luck with that.

Vs. outlawing a brush.

This is pretty much an exemplar case of the difference between simple and complex problems.




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