First of all, this is about how suburbs are bad, not about how rural areas are bad. Nobody’s saying everybody should live only in cities.
Second, the issue isn’t one of “mentality;” it’s one of economics. It isn’t that you’re wrong for wanting to live in a house with a yard; it’s that you aren’t entitled to have the rest of society subsidize your choice.
Suburbanites are welfare queens benefiting from the most massive Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, and it has to stop before we bankrupt ourselves (let alone destroy ourselves via suburbs-induced climate change).
![[meme] Lawns and car storage — name a more wasteful use of land](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c6a93d55-ab0b-4275-bd92-43931e7b7d77.jpeg){kind=link}
First of all, this is about how suburbs are bad, not about how rural areas are bad. Nobody’s saying everybody should live only in cities.
Second, the issue isn’t one of “mentality;” it’s one of economics. It isn’t that you’re wrong for wanting to live in a house with a yard; it’s that you aren’t entitled to have the rest of society subsidize your choice.
Suburbanites are welfare queens benefiting from the most massive Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, and it has to stop before we bankrupt ourselves (let alone destroy ourselves via suburbs-induced climate change).