Elevators are the safest and most effective form of transportation. We should just build vertical cities.

This reminds me of malls trying to chase away teenagers. Well, it worked. The teenagers never liked malls much as a result and kept that world view as they got older.

A lot of older people will be shocked as younger Americans vote against things that make life easier for people who drive. Making driving unattractive for young people was the explicit goal though.

New buildings don’t lower prices because they are cheap. They lower prices because the residents of those new buildings are no longer trying to out bid you for your home.

Total births is a better number. You don’t supply an army from your birthrate, you supply it from the number of babies who were born a few decades ago.

And housing for normal people!

Yes. Decades of under building has resulted in a situation where you need family who bought decades ago or a really good job to not be homeless.

Most of New York doesn’t look like Manhattan. Therefore plenty of room for new housing.

Not really that simple. Dozens have countries have all of those things. Typically they just remain poor.

Political stability is probably a big part of it. China hasn’t done great in this area but it has outperformed most developing countries. From 1980 to 2010 they had a talented string of leaders. Seems that has ended in the last few years though so unclear what happens next.

One child policy is probably some of it too. They had a few decades with a lot of young adults relative to the elderly and children. Again, about to hit a demographic brick wall but it did help dig them out of poverty.

More like when the United States tried to invade Canada.

There is no reason to expect this phenomenon to be linear, and the data doesn’t look particularly linear so it doesn’t really make sense.

If a bar chart is the clearest way to show data, use it. This subreddit is as much to showcase interesting data as elaborate visualisation of that data.