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17 days agoIf usps doesn’t want to deliver to rural addresses, fine, but set up some alternatives. Create a secured remote mailbox, or offer P.O. Boxes for free.
The fundamental problem here is that the US population doesn’t really want to pay for stuff where they don’t directly benefit. In “me first” politics, rural populations are screwed.
Nah. If we take the US as an example they have rampant NIMBYism, a suburbanism ideology that isn’t sustainable financially (or ecologically or socially, for that matter), and rather strict zoning, with the worst stemming from the city of Euclid, and thus being named “euclidean zoning”.
If you’re up for some videos, then StrongTowns, CityNerd and NotJustBikes all talk about this at length.