Slippery slope aside, I think reducing unnecessary consumerism would be beneficial for our most vuneral populations. There would be a lower barrier of entry into the economy and more resources would be available at a lower cost for people who cannot afford them

Convert the parking to housing and business. Build a nuclear reactor instead.

My one critique is that this ruins human habitat and encourages car dependency, where a lot of fossil fuels will go. And no not everyone will drive electric cars soon. People couldn’t handle a mask mandate, they won’t handle a ev mandate. The best thing to do is to infill this land with more housing and commercial space so people don’t have to drive everywhere and just use nuclear power.

Reddit has always had changes that made people want to leave. Removing CSS was the first that comes to mind. Now that lemmy exists it could be seen as a new platform to jump to every time reddit does something dumb or anti user. I have high hopes for lemmy