Comic Strips

get rid of zoning

(To be clear here, I'm not being accusatory or anything here, I'm genuinely curious) When you say that, what, exactly, do you mean? I feeling like I may be thinking something different from you, because when I picture getting rid of zoning, I see businesses/companies taking over everything and making neighborhoods a bleak nightmare. For example, we just recently had a Chinese group open up a smoke shop in a place not zoned for it. (skipped every single process required of new businesses to open) They got caught fast because the neighborhood they were in started having issues with the shop's customers, so someone blew them in to permitting. Thats what I picture happening with no zoning, but without the ability to turn in the problematic businesses.

They aren't solving any actual issues. They are just hogging resources and wasting them on their dream projects. They are taking away resources that others need to survive.

Going to Mars to build slave colonies isn't a "problem" we need to solve. You're just pathetically letting rich assholes off the hook.

Sure, but the point of the comic is that while technological advances for "cool" things get all kinds of attention and development, actual social problems that continue to impact billions of people hardly get any focus.

I can't wait for some billionaire to do both...

Yes but when you have billions at your disposal you have a much greater moral responsability than a fresh out of uni geek. He could greatly contribute to our urgent problems.