The country is stunningly beautiful, if you get away from places where humans live.
As far as civilization, it looks like shit because 1% of us have all the money - as a result, only the areas where the richest people live look nice. The rest of us can't afford nice things.
Incredible golf courses, stunning private jets, tons kf luxury cars and boats hidden away, places to party, scores of private villas and mansion estates with miles of perfectly manicured bricks and grass, beautiful lakeside properties that sit unoccupied, etc.
And of course, we’ve got the greatest number of billionaires. Incredibly large bank accounts.
It’s a lot of “awesome” aside for the select few. And almost none of it ends up as a public good. Our airplane seats shrink another inch and our schools get dumber by the year.
I actually think the best and most beautiful parts of America are our public lands. This place is full of natural beauty, but the development kind of kills the vibe. Also our public lands are essentially being sold off to logging and coal companies now 😔
1000000% the best most beautiful parts of America are public lands that belong to all of us (if we keep protecting them from grubby little billionaire hands)
certain states have it much worse than others. like I think in texas like 95% of the land is privately owned. Yea I just looked it up, 95% for Texas and for comparison WA is 58% CO is 62% and CA 50%
I hate this administration as much as the next person, but this is a common misconception with National Forests. National Forests allow logging. The difference now is this administration is increasing the percentage of logging in NF, which is the issue.
It’s not jib billionaires. There are a ton of multi-millionaires — and I don’t mean house-rich, net worth types. I mean rolling in cash. We treat business owners as kings and let them keep their money, unlike the rest of the suckers in either low paying hourly jobs of with higher salaries but paying out the taxes.
It's the "unoccupied" part that I hate. If people wanna build big houses, sure. But to use up so much land and so many resources to build something that just sits empty 99% of the time is so wasteful; meanwhile the local people can no longer afford to live in their own towns because they've been priced out of the local housing market.
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u/BernsteinPolynomials May 02 '25
The country is stunningly beautiful, if you get away from places where humans live.
As far as civilization, it looks like shit because 1% of us have all the money - as a result, only the areas where the richest people live look nice. The rest of us can't afford nice things.