Fun fact I learned last week: there's a tipping point to this! Eventually, all the wealth we "build" by destroying communities for highways and slaughtering people in car crashes is outweighed by all the wealth we lose by forcing everyone to own cars and denying them opportunities if they don't.
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Does Constant Driving Really Make Our Country Richer? — Streetsblog USA
A new study reveals that constant driving is making America less productive and prosperous — and getting people on other modes could help right the ship.
@qagggy.bsky.socialI have a degree in Economics but I don’t fixate on GDP. In America, when we build a massive freeway, buy a car, fill it with gas, crash it, repair it, and treat the associated injury and cardiopulmonary disease…that all adds to GDP. But what did it buy us?