I would say yes. We should be doing shit like fixing the decaying infrastructure in the rust belt and rebuilding manufacturing with nationalized industry. Also breaking up Amazon and Tesla and assimilating their respective components into public ownership, e.g. NASA, USPS (this would include taking over UPS and FedEx), Department of Energy, etc.
What about a place like LA? We're in the middle of earthquake, wildfire, and drought country, and the whole place has been built to basically be inaccessible without private automobiles, but also it's the 2nd largest city...
LA was built on a desert, the whole place was a mistake. Yes it's massive but we can fit a lot more people in a lot of big cities if we're talking about a socialist government. Useless offices full of paper pushing unproductive labor could be used for mixed use public housing, services etc. Entire buildings sit empty just because they're investment properties.
I would say yes. We should be doing shit like fixing the decaying infrastructure in the rust belt and rebuilding manufacturing with nationalized industry. Also breaking up Amazon and Tesla and assimilating their respective components into public ownership, e.g. NASA, USPS (this would include taking over UPS and FedEx), Department of Energy, etc.
What about a place like LA? We're in the middle of earthquake, wildfire, and drought country, and the whole place has been built to basically be inaccessible without private automobiles, but also it's the 2nd largest city...
LA was built on a desert, the whole place was a mistake. Yes it's massive but we can fit a lot more people in a lot of big cities if we're talking about a socialist government. Useless offices full of paper pushing unproductive labor could be used for mixed use public housing, services etc. Entire buildings sit empty just because they're investment properties.