Bullet Points

I just wrote these down in my notes to help clarify my thoughts a bit, so I might as well post them.  I accept them as defensible and acceptable truisms

• A city is an economy embodied
• An economy is social and financial exchange
• In-person exchange is encoded in our DNA
• In-person exchange is always more beneficial than digital, but not always more necessary
• The internet is better as a tool aiding in-person exchange than it is a substitute.
• Car-dependent exchange networks and movement is effectively a tax of distance, infrastructure, and energy. Qualitatively and quantitatively.
• There is very little chance any economy can sustain itself willfully taxing itself unnecessarily.
• These dynamics take a generation or two to play themselves out, hence Mumford's quote: "necropolis is near yet no stone has yet crumbled."