It just feels dishonest not to tell the entire story - of automakers killing train systems, of land value disproportionately going up near urban cores, wages staying flat, culture going right... People made the economically available choices. Preferences don’t just fall from the sky.

this is basically the insoluble contradiction of left-wing politics over the last 15 years in a nutshell: sweeping, nigh-fatalistic structuralism welded to absurdly harsh and inescapable judgments about individual agency that would make the most prudish victorian moralists blush