*Why is Americas society so decayed and fractured?*

As a non-American who has visited the US multiple times one thing stands out like dog balls - especially when you consider that the US is a *modern, democratic, Western society*.

Americans are far too comfortable living in and around abject poverty. Multi-million dollar properties a few feet away from homeless encampments is a fucking disgrace.

I asked my friends and family in the US how they became so comfortable with it.

They said they don’t really see it or have to deal with it. I asked how that was possible?

They said we drive everywhere! Drive to work, drive to the gym, drive to Erewhon and valet the car!

Abject poverty out of sight out of mind.

Then it clicked…

Because of Americas unique car ownership culture and infrastructure built around the personal motor vehicle, Americans are completely blind to the abject squalor that resides in most corners of their country.

If you don’t actually have to walk amongst it (like a tourist) and you can just drive past the squalor in every city in the US you don’t really have to acknowledge it. You drive past it shielded by a thin layer of steel and glass.

A country that treats their poor and homeless with such disdain that are happy to have poverty front and centre in their home cities and towns has far bigger fish to fry to than ‘free speech’.

Zoom out even more and the cause is broken money and misaligned incentives (this is 101 shit for Bitcoiners).

Address the rampant poverty, close the wealth gap, look after the homeless.

Free speech will get a lot easier when everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.

Keep fighting the good fight nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsse5935 🇺🇸

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