Idiots in Air Conditioning

When I consistently rode buses, I had a number of bus drivers tell me how the schedules for the bus routes were made. They explained that someone would take a motorcycle on a Sunday, ride the bus routes, and time it, which sounded like the most ridiculous methodology I had ever heard. While I had my doubts about it, I realized that the schedules were always a bit off because there was very little accounting for traffic and/or other issues that one dealt with while driving. I concluded that the problem with most urban policy is that there are a bunch of comfortable idiots in air conditioning deciding the fate of the working class, and very few of them were doing a good job.

People may get angry at me, but I could care less at this point: it is cruel to tell folks to build when the physical and environmental costs are skyrocketing. In Texas, construction workers are considered so disposable that water breaks are considered a luxury because people think that construction workers fall from the sky. None of these clowns has ever spent a summer even commuting by bus to get somewhere, but they are moronic enough to demand that others go without the luxuries they take for granted. All of these so-called “experts” keep demanding that everyone continue to build to reduce housing costs when the issue is not construction, but hoarding. The way to reduce housing costs is to–wait for it–charge less. The end.

Throughout the world, there are so many “professionals” who make decisions without the working class experience. Younger generations are finally starting to ignore older individuals who claim that our financial situations are exactly the same. In fact, that is the problem with government on all levels: a bunch of older people who have no idea how the world has changed, but want to hold onto power. People who spend their lives comfortably have no concept of what to do when life no longer looks like it did when they were younger or struggling. Moreover, nobody seems to understand that the current society does not actually offer an end to the struggling, just a change in how people struggle.

Project 2025 and all of the outrageous inequality are examples of what it looks like when the “safe” people make decisions. None of the people in power have any concept of how they would manage the consequences of their own behavior, but they play with the lives of others like sociopaths. Even worse, there are still fools too dumb to recognize that there is no escaping the hands of fate, which is what everyone is now seeing with the dropping of the stock market. All of these vipers thought they would extract endless wealth and labor from the hands of the vulnerable, and they thought we should all sit still and take it. Not surprisingly, no one will perpetually subject themselves to abuse without getting something in return, and most people are getting nothing for their “resilience.”

The truth of the matter is that people without experience should never be allowed to make decisions for people who endure consequences. If someone commutes by car, that individual has no business planning bus schedules for people who have no other choice but the bus. Commanding that buildings be built should mean that one is responsible for building them. When uninformed elders want to keep popping off about “their day,” it is time for everyone to walk away. Experience with the past and in comfort means less than people think it does, and it is time for all the air-conditioned idiots to be quiet.