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30 Days, 8 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?
It was so deliberate . Trams that ran on time. Wide sidewalks. Leaf vacuums instead of leaf blowers. Each small choice accumulated into proof that someone thought about how systems should work.
kyla scanlon • 30 Days, 8 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?
Each small choice accumulated into proof that someone thought about how systems should work.
kyla scanlon • 30 Days, 8 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?
Ann Manov captures what this extraction economy feels like in a recent piece:
... See moreThe most humiliating aspect of being alive today, I suppose, is feeling like one is living through a single, unending commercial break. As the human race disintegrates into increasingly atomized particles of recluses and rejects, one can only “stay in touch” through
kyla scanlon • 30 Days, 8 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?
The goal is to make technology something that extends human potential rather than reducing it to nothingness - to create visible prosperity rather than just extracting it.
kyla scanlon • 30 Days, 8 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?
Being surrounded by old things makes you aware of the responsibility of keeping them standing. This is what visible investment looks like - infrastructure you can see working (at least somewhat) and architecture that reminds you something was built to last. The question is whether the will to maintain exists elsewhere.