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Your life right now has unpriced externalities among them: deaths from vehicle miles driven, sedentary car bound lifestyles, parking lot deserts, reduced childhood autonomy, pollution, highway driving commute times, class segregation by neighborhood).

You are welcome of course to continue living that way, but I wish you luck affording it once society chooses to price those externalities in.

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> our life right now has unpriced externalities among them: deaths from vehicle miles driven, sedentary car bound lifestyles, parking lot deserts, reduced childhood autonomy, pollution, highway driving commute times, class segregation by neighborhood).

I commute into a city by train a couple of times a week, working remotely otherwise, and don't drive all that much at other times, so your stereotypical assumptions here don't really count for much.

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