"I wonder, when William Kissam Vanderbilt II (with help from a few of his wealthy and powerful friends) built the exclusive, private Long Island Motor Parkway in 1908, did critics gripe that he and his rich friends were going to use their motorcars to flee the city on that limited-access ribbon of smooth concrete and leave the poor trapped in urban squalor?"
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
QotD: Gray Origin Edition...
Regarding the dueling space programs of billionaires, Roberta X points out that all of this has happened before, and it will all happen again:
