Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Jordan Green" channel.

  1. 5:04 It's not just a matter of priority. When you build denser you have lower infrastructure costs compared to income. If you have many single family homes like you do in the US you'll need more roads, power lines, water lines, sewer lines etc to serve them without getting more tax income. And water lines, power lines etc will lose some of what they're transporting on the way there... Drinking water will seep out, power will be lost to resistance and turn into heat, etc. Busses has to drive further to pick up passengers, with fewer passengers on each stop, and so one and so forth... Companies don't need huge parking lots for cars if people can take the metro or bus or walk. So you can fit more companies in a smaller area, leading to more taxes pr square mile of infrastructure. That also means more money for other things like schools, while American municipalities have to waste that money on excessive infrastructure, on potholes, leaky pipelines, school busses covering way too big an area, additional fire departments, police offices, ambulances etc to cover the larger area and so one. Even in rural areas we live denser then in the US, with farms placing their houses together at the edge of the land near their neighbors so multiple houses can use the same power line, water, sewer, road etc, and share farming equipment etc. 11:52 Pretty much. Europeans tend to have less inequality within our country then you guys do. Both in terms of the US as a whole and within individual US states. That said, there's definitely European nations with more or less wealth...
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