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Why so many car washes?

Why are there so many cars?

Because our country is ultimately designed and developed by urban sprawl madmen with a highway fetish and zero vision for a better way for humans to live and operate.

I love how we hyper fixate on stupid questions about car washes while pretending like car dependency isn't the problem.



Do you think it's that orchestrated? I think it's more: evolution / chaos / emergent behavior.


The moves to the suburbs was orchestrated. The moves to newer suburbs from the existing ones was orchestrated. The encouragement of driving everywhere was orchestrated.

Not to cause us to need more car washes. But it was by design.


Some of each. There are people opposing efforts to make things better. However there also is a lot that ever step makes things better for someone in particular who thus cares more than the more generic society that got worse.




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