I understand that it is not as simple or practical as I would like it to be, but I am also saying we need to start making concrete steps towards making it more simple and practical by changing a lot of the really ignorant, short-sighted and stupid ways we do things because we seem to be convinced these are the only ways we can do things.

We need to make policy and infrastructure decisions that actually support sensible, sustainable goals besides just maximizing efficiency and therefore profit for companies that insist they are “providing jobs and important services” as if nobody else could or would figure out their own ways to do that if they weren’t deliberately taking up all the oxygen in the room to starve out any competition or actual innovation. Not every solution to every problem needs to be the cheapest fucking solution that ultimately only benefits huge corporations that have governments tripping over each other to give so many tax breaks to, that they don’t pay taxes anyway, so that we can have an economy designed to concentrate as much of our wealth as possible into the largest number of billionaires we can possibly make.

My point is we can choose to start doing things differently, start building an economy of sustainability and resilience, giving people back the local services and supplies that monopolistic “efficiency” has stolen from them so they don’t have to travel so far afield or rely on constant long-haul deliveries so much, pursuing different numbers that are more meaningful indicators of actual improvements to the lives of the people in this country.