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If you can, you should visit Redwood National Park.

While I was in university I was working on this (now abandoned) project https://flyingcarz.io/ which tracks changes in used car prices. Talking about this project helped me get an internship at CDK Global, a company that provides tech services to the auto industry, primarily car dealerships.

exactly. vaccines weren't exactly a prescription drug but without taking them you were basically a second class citizen

Businesses understand their clientele. In a free market, businesses like Gucci might elect to go cashless, while grocery stores, gas stations, and local government will continue to take cash without being forced to since it is in their economic interest to do so.

Businesses understand their clientele. Some businesses cater to clientele on the lower end of the economic spectrum while other businesses are on the opposite end. Businesses that fall into the former category would likely continue to accept cash payments while come businesses that fall in the latter category may elect to go cashless in a free market.

If a high end retailer like Gucci decided to stop accepting cash, who exactly would that harm?

Nothing about a business dealing with cash is free. From security, transport, accounting, etc.

There are costs involved in dealing with both forms of payments.

If the state can compel businesses into taking cash, the state can compel businesses into accepting cards.

For the record I don't support either and believe it's up to every business to decide what form of payments to accept.

I would rather Walmart and Home Depot be forced to accept mobile payments than this. (But I don't really support either case)

Ridiculous.

Why not also then force cash only businesses into taking card and mobile payments also?

Arguably the housing supply shortage is a better problem to have than a population shortage problem ie Japan. The supply shortage can be amended with construction. The population shortage ... not so easy. There are many problems with a declining, aging, shrinking population. Particularly the distribution in the economy between the retirees that need to be taken care of and the workers in the economy that contribute to the economy. Many western countries would face similar problems if not for immigrations since birth rates are falling.

Unfortunately, MUNI is not grade separated and the Muni trains do have to interface with traffic. Still easier than cars but similar challenges. And unlike the private industry in SF, the public agencies seem allergic to technology.

I think the best way to do that is installing better fare gates that prevent fare evasion. Seems reasonable to believe anti-social people on BART causing trouble are fare evaders and a crack down on fare evasion would keep them off the system.

Not saying it applies to everyone. I'm sure they matter to some. But i'd also bet there are many people that would launch their own start up or work for one if housing costs were less of a concern.

There are benefits from economies of agglomeration that are lost when relocating to distant areas for affordability which is the main reason the midwest or other parts of the country haven't been able to scale up startup economies. If everyone (founders, investors, employees, customers, vendors, etc.) are in one area, it facilitates better collaborations and also increases chances of random collisions. Employers get wider pool of talent; employees get greater options of employers that they can bounce around without having to relocate.

Edit (meant to add): I believe these factors explain this better than simply reputation or prestige.

Or someone/some company/government should look into building a new city somewhere in America. Avoid the NIMBYs entirely. Kind of like what Culdesac Tempe is doing but bigger.

Maybe if Culdesac Tempe turns out to be successful someone may attempt this.

BART is struggling to fund it's operations currently as ridership is down significantly from per-pandemic. Bart is already constructing a 5 mile extension into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara. But BART should not prioritize any more extensions after that. It is better for BART to focus on transit oriented development (TOD). There are many good opportunities for TOD. Currently. too many stations are surrounded by low density housing and surface parking lots. Also, it is better for BART to use money to improve operations as frequency is abysmal on weekends and nighttime. Better to use money on expanding service and building TOD before any further extensions.

The public transit needs more ridership. Hasn't recovered as well as other cities from pre-2020 and is very low currently. Ridership would increase with transit oriented development (TOD). A lot of good opportunities for TOD around BART and Caltrain stations.

The population would absolutely be higher and the economy would be better. More startups and more people willing to work for startups since housing costs are less of a burden.

Those people are delusional. They should see how the doom loop worked out for detroit.