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'never too late to stop making things worse' is good advice in many areas!


>The Le Corbusier spirit of zoning

It's not Le Corbusier. Zoning in the USA started in the late 1800s, an effort to regulate light and air in cities, and turned by the early 1900s into an effort to keep certain industries and ethnicities out of "good" neighborhoods.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/28/a-history-of-z...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-19/the-birth...

https://fee.org/articles/the-racist-history-of-zoning-laws/

https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-sin...

https://oldurbanist.blogspot.com/2016/02/american-zoning-as-...


As your links point out, much as it was about "light and air" it was also about keeping out poor people and undesired races.

The first zoning laws in SF were used to selectively drive out Chinese people.

Just want to make sure that this often hidden part of zoning is above the fold.

It's also largely why racial segregation and housing wealth has not changed at all over the past 50 years. The laws are used to prevent integrations if communities, ensure that infrastructure like schools are unevenly distributed, and enforce our current racial divisions.


you read the links, thank you!


You may mean Corian[1], which is a countertop surface[2]

1: https://www.corian.com/ 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corian


Radiolab's More Perfect had a pair of very interesting episodes on Edward Blum:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/more-perfect-plaintiffs/

and

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/architect-edward-blum/


Yes, it's happily becoming less common, but it was and is common for all options in a 401k plan to have high fees, and be set up to benefit the company

http://time.com/money/3959942/401k-bad-choices/

http://www.pionline.com/article/20170927/ONLINE/170929858/ge...

http://time.com/money/3991604/401k-funds-bad/.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=188571


But the beautiful thing is if you don't like the plan you can opt out (or only invest up to the match) and invest in an IRA instead. Can't do that with a pension.


> And you always have to walk fifteen minutes, just to get to the transit spot.

I know a lot of broke people who live within less than a two minute walk of a bus stop and could not possibly afford a car. You might want to consider how the built environment has dictated your choices.


>I am sure this comment will only be seen by me, only through this browser.

hi!

Since your model has led you to an incorrect conclusion, are you going to revise it?


"Is the Second Amendment the Second Most Important?" - "The order of that list, however, still reflects Madison’s view: They come in the same order as the sections of the Constitution that they would have modified."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...



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