I swear, these people get stupider by the day. Walmart was founded in 1962 as an off-shoot of five and dimes, and didn't enter suburbs (or the West Coast) until c. 1990 and most of those were originally non-Supercenter stores anyway, by which time post-WWII suburbs had long grown and matured.
Fucking young ass niggers and shit. I remember the first walmart in our area out west and it was confusing to us why it was built in the ass-end of nowhere, not realizing that the strategy of walmarts in the midwest had ALWAYS been to build in the ass-end of nowhere and provide an amazing shopping experience that nothing around it could compete with.
Why isn't my neighborhood as walkable and transit friendly as Disneyland. We don't even have a monorail system!
They repeatedly use theme parks and colleges as examples of "walkable cities" and it's absolutely batshit because if you had a theme park or a college in the ass-end of nowhere, sure it's walkable inside, but dammit if you have a car you're a god among men.
The original theme park has been praised for its infrastructure and layout and has been used as a model for urban development (Havasu, Arazona is a good example. The developer even hired the same guy who helped build Disneyland to build his city.).
They also overlook the fact that theme parks and colleges only are able to exist because of a roided-up version of the dreaded capitalism. Theme parks you can't walk two steps without spending money on either a ride or merchandise or food, and college prices (at least for the private ones with the walkability they crave) have been notoriously out of control in the states for ages.
They overlook it because it's not much different from being a consoomer buying up the latest funko pops in the big city going to barcades and spending disposable income on avocado toast.
Oh it's easy, we just tax the rich! And then we can build this urban utopia.
The thing that really confuses me is they insist the urban centers are profitable enough to pay for themselves, you presumably shouldn't even need the billionaire tax.
According to urban3's "data", a city should consistent solely of 100 story office towers as everything else brings in less property tax revenue.
It’s property values, which probably convert to property taxes.
You also have a square law going on - the total area outside that spire is quite large because it’s just huge in two dimensions- which means it adds up.
The same theme parks and colleges arguments (specifically, a lot of missing functions) never get applied to large suburban shopping malls for some reason, even outdoor ones.
Property taxes are a whole can of worms, because they get judged on a variety of factors, most notably "improvements", tax-speak for buildings and anything else that can't be moved. A vacant piece of land in the city has lower taxes than a building, and the value of those buildings can vary wildly depending on a bunch of external factors beyond "let's just build everything everywhere". That's why a lot of abandoned buildings in cities turned back into parking lots, it's not a conspiracy, it's the fact that long-term abandoned buildings don't pay for themselves, but the city still taxes them on it. By tearing stuff down you save money, and because a rotting abandoned building is a nuisance it degrades nearby property values, so it's in the city's best interest to tear them down too.
You realize you can walk or bike to Walmart, right? Most of them have bike racks.
Colleges and theme parks exist by upcharging you for everything, even for a soda pop. You can't even park with out paying a fee. They aren't communist in their buisness practices whatsoever, they're cyberpunk. It's a wonder that any of these places have guest wifi.
Knowing that these are the people that make up fuckcars just let's me know they're all hypocrites. Their plastic crap will break and need to be thrown away, forever tainting the environment. A new 2024 Chevy Malibu will last well over 100k miles, and even when headed for the scrap yard, can still be used for parts for the remaining cars on the road.
See, you would be right if it wasn't for the completely intransitable parking lot, which is equivalent to an infinitely deep chasm or a moat filled with alligators to them, even though a normal person would consider a store so large that you could live for weeks? Months? Years without purchasing anything from anywhere else (AI rendition below)
Yes some Walmarts sell gas. You can live just off Walmart if you wanted. I think they think Walmart is car hell because it does cater to car people with a pretty good auto section, sometimes even a built in garage. Nope, can't have that. No wins for car brains.
They hate walmart because they're niggercattle told to hate walmart even though Targay, Costco, and Traitor Hoe's are basically the same as walmart on slightly different scales and sizes, but those are deemed Reddit™ Approved© Capitalism® for unknown reasons.
Nigga those cars back then wernt high RPM monsters cranking out the horsepower of a M4 Sherman. They were big, slow rpm monsters that chugged a fuck ton of oil. We also have bigger radiators now because older ones SUCKED. We learned from failure, which with cooling is important because you don't want your engine block going bang. You niggers are retarded.Trucks should have undersized radiators because a properly sized one is "dangerous":
Walmart has issues of its own but I've always found it funny that the people that complain about it don't seem to realize that it's a godsend for the poor and people barely scraping by. It's not like rich people shop at Walmart.
