Over Christmas, it was below freezing for three days solid in Atlanta. It took four days for someone to come out and fix it.
It is currently flooding in Mission Valley San Diego after three solid days of rain. These unprecedented events are becoming pretty common.
This is a world constructed by profiteers and rentseekers. Not idealists and innovators.
Everything made must meet the minimum standard, the least viable product. The steel plates over the pothole. The closure of the lower level parking, because that’s as bad as it gets…for now.
Meanwhile, both cities have found the money to construct new sports arenas in the past few years. Atlanta has even found the money to create a cop-city atop an environmentally necessary water table.
The profit incentive is the American KGB. Lurking behind every decision, undermining it for their own personal gain, ensuring that nothing works too well, except the hidden corridors and back alleys where money is free to flow between the greedy.