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If we stopped restricting new housing and taller building, then the number of cars on the road would decrease.

But didn't you hear? GDP was recently replaced with VMT (vehicle miles traveled) as the measure of a country's economic vitality. So anything that decreases the number of cars on the road, or how far they travel, is right out.



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