...but it will happen. The American suburb, and the American city (with few exceptions) were planned with cars in mind. So transforming 80-90 years of infrastructure and all the customs and ways of doing things will be very difficult. It will require different solutions for different problems. And a carefully laid out, very long term plan, with plenty of moving parts (returning to trains, creating public transportation options, bicycles, electrical bicycles, so-called "gig economy" options, re-thinking urban planning, highway planning, moving of goods, etc.) Most of all it requires Americans agreeing that this is necessary. And before that, that climate change is real, that urban sprawl is no good, etc. Since this has been utterly politicized along party lines, it will be very difficult. The sad part, as someone who looks at this from outside the U.S., is that this will deepen the American polarization crisis. Perhaps only when disaster strikes on the coasts, it will be clear. But at that point it is too late. Maybe it is too late now.

even if you think this is a funny joke, this is simply not true. look at pictures of CEO's of all Fortune 500 companies and point me to someone that meets these characteristics. this discussion of ethics could be fruitful, but if it is simply reduced to caricatures then it all becomes mere cartoons. so you are saying that if someone doesn't contribute to the code they have no right to say something about how the code is used? am I understanding this correctly?

Do remember that in the XIXth century WASPS crossed the border in to mexico and slowly but surely occupied half of the country. So I guess WASP Texans used to be illegal aliens. Borders are ridicuolous and history goes beyond them. Remember de Monroe doctrine? The Manifest Destiny? All forms of rationalization, but now WASP Americans are seeing the reverse trend, and like mexicans before them they don't like it either.