In a few places, maybe, but there's a lot of the world where governments barely function in the first place. Roads aren't even a solved problem globally. UBI for even middle income countries wouldn't happen before climate change caused such damage as to undo any progress that might maybe make UBI possible.
For example: Star Trek is fantasy. 100%. People trying to retcon transporters are wasting their time and energy. The easiest evidence is the technical diagrams, a "Heisenberg compensator" pops up to magic away real science problems.
Hard science sci-fi can be great. Three Body Problem and Andy Wier's work is wonderful. And I love me some sci-fi so loose on the sci, it's bordering on fantasy. But pick a lane.
Y'all, Poptarts were always garbage in a mylar pouch, only made popular by marketing.
The fact that the Toaster Strudel exists is evidence that pop tarts are a kludge of a bastardization of a good thing, so far removed from the real deal, as to be indistinguishable from it. They started enshittified, and only had one way to go from there.
It's a lot of childhood marketing associating things like cartoons and commercials for the product. Because they were expensive and sugary, parents would make them a special indigence.
As a child I used to love them when I could get them, then I had a real pastry with jam in the middle never went back. I was so upset about how much better a real part was and why we never have them, when they were basically the same price at the time. But we lived in the county, so an hour-long drive to get them every other day made no sense, either.
Maybe it's just me, but I ran through a lot of typical heavily marketed food items for kids when I was one, and always ended up hungry an hour later. Learned early on how much of that stuff was garbage.
Yeah, it was awesome. Beach? 20 minutes. Work? 20 minutes. Every friend? 20 minutes.
It really is something special to live in a time and place when infrastructure matches demand. Life becomes about living, not about the logistics of daily life as a struggle.
I lived in LA right at the end of "it's LA. Everything is 20 minutes from everything else." Which was mostly true other than a rush hour that politely lasted from 3:30 to 6:00pm. Only places like The Valley or Long Beach or Montebello/West Covina took 30+ minutes.
Every time I visit now, everything is stop and go traffic. Not just there, every major city. Road infrastructure hasn't, and can't realistically, keep up with basic population growth. Sprawl is a disease. It's urban planning cancer.
100% true. When I visit my parents, Home Depot is like the Best Buy of home stuff. No one knows shit, no one cares. Ace is where you go to have someone take a minute longer to give you real info. It's like some secret third space where if they served coffee or beer, people would spend half their day there.
Also, the sun is a cruel god. You need it to survive. To grow anything. But not just the sun. Just sun? Ya die. Too much sun and not enough other stuff? Likely dead. Too much sun for 3 months in a row? Maybe dead now, maybe dead later. Or lovely, hard to say.
Easy. My spouse is 5 years older than me. Go back 10 years to 2016. Make tons of bets and buy lots of crypto under my own name. Pull a Steve Rogers and show up older right after now me jumps in. Happily retire.
In a few places, maybe, but there's a lot of the world where governments barely function in the first place. Roads aren't even a solved problem globally. UBI for even middle income countries wouldn't happen before climate change caused such damage as to undo any progress that might maybe make UBI possible.