I can’t believe he said his channel is for the people who can afford to move out of North America. There is absolutely no way he would have been as successful if his channel was only viewed by the less than 1% who can legally and financially move to Amsterdam.
He’s not wrong about NA, but he’s being a privileged rich dick. Car centric infrastructure isn’t hurting the rich anywhere near as badly as the poor.
I haven’t see the discussion previous to this snapshot, however his channel definitely isn’t a „how to change x country“ type channel, strong towns might indeed be better for that. What his channel is doing is providing insight into a different way to do things, a push for people to questions the status quo.
But don’t be under the illusion you could change a place like the US or even other European countries like Germany to turn into the Netherlands, that won’t happen in a few decades.
So he isn’t totally wrong about that. Doesn’t mean his channel is worthless for us, just that it isn’t a howto fix this instruction.
I actually do think he’s wrong about North America, we can see real significant change in our lifetimes on transit and already are. It really just depends on what area we’re talking about. Obviously a place like Omaha, Nebraska is going to look different from NYC.
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I can’t believe he said his channel is for the people who can afford to move out of North America. There is absolutely no way he would have been as successful if his channel was only viewed by the less than 1% who can legally and financially move to Amsterdam.
He’s not wrong about NA, but he’s being a privileged rich dick. Car centric infrastructure isn’t hurting the rich anywhere near as badly as the poor.
I haven’t see the discussion previous to this snapshot, however his channel definitely isn’t a „how to change x country“ type channel, strong towns might indeed be better for that. What his channel is doing is providing insight into a different way to do things, a push for people to questions the status quo.
But don’t be under the illusion you could change a place like the US or even other European countries like Germany to turn into the Netherlands, that won’t happen in a few decades.
So he isn’t totally wrong about that. Doesn’t mean his channel is worthless for us, just that it isn’t a howto fix this instruction.
I actually do think he’s wrong about North America, we can see real significant change in our lifetimes on transit and already are. It really just depends on what area we’re talking about. Obviously a place like Omaha, Nebraska is going to look different from NYC.