>>1844197Honestly?
>society backslides and gets poorer>cities gentrify and become uninhabitable for 90% of the population>mass migration into adjacent small towns and run down suburbs that can't accomodate>mfg 1960 unmaintained house is renovated to house four families, lawns become tent spaces and subsistence gardens>emission regulations make electric cars a luxury, rate of car ownership plummets>a lot of jobs in this country are largely built around people communting out of cities and suburbs to industrial areas far away on cheaper land - most employees will have to depend on abysmal public buses that can't meet demand and private forms of transportation/carpools that will be organized by employers instead(this will be used to justify lower wages)>society starts to look like Asia, swarms of cheap Chinese scooters, mopeds, motorcycles, and ebikes on disorderly roads, slow lanes of highways probably become dedicated to non-car travel >likely reintroduction of corporate towns in the middle of nowhere so Amazon and others can maintain their employee base in light of these issues>federal government throws trillions of dollars at infrastructure improvement that gets built at a snail's pace if at all, tending to only improve gentrified city areas that were once ghettos instead of the new ghettos>all cars become luxury cars, releasing exclusively SUVs for wealthy families and sports cars as toys that get passed down like iphones - manufacterers only have a few cars in their lineup at all with badge engineered underpinnings, making most cars pretty indistinguishable outside of marketing and customization(think smartphones)>your workday takes several hours longer, to the point where some people are compelled to only go home on weekends because it takes them 6 hours to bike home, becomes normalized that working single men are homeless anyway to save moneySomething like that. When a country is "developed", it quickly undevelops itself.
