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Everything is about money in this fucking country. Every single decision the government makes HAS to revolve around profit and is powered by bribes. We are a dry pie that the shareholders are trying to squeeze even drier. We will never be like the rest of the world until we get money out of politics. Nothing will ever get done. Only what the rich wants done. . Fuck this country.
Not everything; some things are about racism. Suburban sprawl and car dependency owe a lot to white flight to suburbs with racial covenants and racist urban-planning decisions like Robert Moses making overpasses on roads to suburbs too low for buses to keep the minorities contained in the ghettos. The idea of retreating to defensible space (in a suburban cul-de-sac or a personal car) also raises the question of who one is expecting to defend against.
The stratification of society is also about money. You need to have an underclass to scare and motivate the workforce.
Some of it is subject to human frailty. Even the rich are too busy being racist to make the most money they possibly could. Human biases affect and infect even the systems we produce in ways that are difficult to untangle or even perceive at first glance.
The fictional, optimal economist version of people doesn't exist in boardrooms or secret societies either. It exists nowhere.
It's important to understand that because otherwise you lend credence to the mystifying, unempowering idea that they are all part of an unstoppable plot full of perfect agents and not just a cohort of self-centered, biased, and routinely misguided mortals just like the rest of us.
Yes, it is not a statistical oddity the wealthy are shit humans. This system is guaranteed to produce these oligarchs.