the us will be a true shithole in about a decade.

Will be?

I haven't had any interest in visiting the place since Bush was president.

They shouldn't be, but they have a long history of doing exactly that.

Is that a typo?

I would agree that Ford is the bigger fiend...

The main thing that concerns me about a fully cashless society is that the means of buying and selling stuff shifts fully into the hands of the for profit, private company payment processors.

If cash is no longer an option, then ever increasing payment fees can become a growing profit center for those banks, credit card companies and payment processors as they gouge the public worse than they already are.

Probably wouldn't be allowed on a plane.

This is how you get Christians to lobby for no religion in schools.

Now if there's an imam to step forward, we could really accelerate this process.

Wait until the Satanic Temple joins the action...

Because he can't do all the things simultaneously?

Remodel as residential?

That's expensive and time consuming.

I've seen it done a couple of times and it took way longer than just bulldozing and rebuilding. But that would have been even more expensive.

Remodel as residential?

That's expensive and time consuming.

I've seen it done a couple of times and it took way longer than just bulldozing and rebuilding. But that would have been even more expensive.

It's all part of the "move fast and break things" development process.

There are some limited use cases where they can make sense.

Commuting or grocery shopping aren't among those, though.

End up bad, but for the first couple of quarters that "rock star" MBA has created huge short term profits. And is that what really matters in business these days...