The West has no clue how far it fell behind.

For example, how long does it take to build a train station?

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ: 9 hours
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ: 7 years snd counting, and no sign of a station exists.

<thread> ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ twitter.com/i/web/status/1โ€ฆ
2. How long does it take to sink a train station underground?

In ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ or the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ? Probably at least a decade.

In ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต? About 3 hours.
3. How about that construction site by your home thatโ€™s been blowing dust around for years?

How long does it actually take to assemble a 10 story tower?

In the West? About 2 years after approvals.

In China? A day.
4. How do they build bridges in your town?

Because this is how theyโ€™re assembled in Asia.
5. Those are easy though.

What if the government needs a high tech research facility for the military?

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ does those in 45 days.
6. Itโ€™s not because we donโ€™t have smart people. Tiny Mile is Toronto-based, and they build robots that make deliveries cheap & accessible, which will be a game changer for mobility impaired people.

Toronto banned it, now theyโ€™re in Charlotte & Miami. We hate talent. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
7. Plutocracies force people into a handful of cities because itโ€™s lucrative for large landholders to create scarcity when none exists.

Countries focused on national growth connect their cities so productivity takes priority.

High speed rail by country.
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ: 0km
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ: 80km
8. Oh hey. Young adults on TikTok are starting to wonder what the heck is happening in the West.

Itโ€™ll soon start to settle in that a new park or a couple bike lanes wonโ€™t fix this. Neither will stacking people in smaller cubes.

What happens then?

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Nov 4
Elon Musk, the worldโ€™s richest man, doesnโ€™t know how to make money.
โ€” half of twitter
2/ important lessons

1. Profits = revenue minus costs. If costs fall faster than revenue, profits can increase

2. The new owners (more than Musk), generated trillions in value. Who knows, but I wouldnโ€™t bet against them.
3. The lack of empathy on social for fired employees will be normal in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Many are screwed at their workplace & resent people with a great degree of freedom, like Twitter had.

Theyโ€™ll use the worst examples to justify why it shouldnโ€™t exist.
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The second these things learn to flip houses and fill out mortgage applications, ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ's economy is toast.
Get results with Skynetโ€™s #1 Realtor.*

*1% in volume for sales in District 9 when representing transnational money launderers washing local politician bribes. Image
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Announcer: Donโ€™t miss a very special episode of CBC Marketplace, where our robots go undercover and take a look at ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€™s mortgage industry.

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Nov 2
Want a future in ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ or to be able to have your kids grow up here?

Consider joining or donating to @TI_Canada. Seriously, their work is some of the most high impact in driving ethical governance.

Letโ€™s talk about what they did for housing.

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transparencycanada.ca/become-a-member
2/ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ is now in a frenzy about beneficial ownership. No one knows who owns anything.

Weโ€™ve got drug dealers, dictators, oligarchs, foreign militaries, you name it โ€” all stashing their cash into housing, knowing ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ wonโ€™t be able to seize it.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ has always known this.
3/ in fact, ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ arguably put up road blocks to ensure you wouldnโ€™t figure it out.

Property registries are prohibitively expensive to access.

How are you supposed to analyze the size of a problem if you canโ€™t access the data?

Obvs, itโ€™s just a rumor or youโ€™d have data!
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Oct 19
Toronto Ward 8 residents are asking if I would support a push for an Eglinton LRT inquiry.

Metrolinx said the construction consortium was responsible for delays, but ordered to pay $237m for delays.

Not only do I support an inquiry โ€” contracts will be milestone based. 1/3
2/ Metrolinx blamed the construction consortium (SNC, ACS-Dragados, Aecon, and EllisDon) for the delays, claiming they didn't hit their milestones.

Busineses impacted, 100 closed before 2020, got nothing.

Contractors are rewarded for delays & businesses are penalized.
3/ This project should have been iteratively executed. Built section by section, to minimize disruption โ€” instead of all at once.

We need to shift large public works projects to milestone-based payment, or businesses & taxpayers will be stuck paying inflated bills.
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Oct 18
Hey Toronto ๐Ÿ‘‹

What will we do with extra lawn signs? Plastic-eating mushrooms that break them down in weeks instead of 200+ years, obvs.

Vote for ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ's first municipal climate innovation lab to explore city solutions like this.

#LetsFixIt #topoli

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2/ I just want to live in an affordable, innovative, efficient, equitable, and corruption-free city. Don't you, Toronto?

If so, tell your friends & vote. Grab a sign & get the word out.

One of the lowest voter turnout rates ever is projected. It may never be easier.
3/ if you havenโ€™t already, check out our climate plan

- pilots of sidewalks and roads made of organic-based solutions that are similar & inexpensive compared to existing solutions

- solar road pilots

- cost effect electrification of transit

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Hey Toronto ๐Ÿ‘‹

Letโ€™s start a city-owned housing company.

Instead of selling off land for cheap to developers, we can develop it ourselves & create rent stabilized apartments. ๐Ÿฅณ

#LetsFixIt #topoli #ToRe

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2/ Under this mayor, Toronto literally sold public land for a toonie.

Building โ€œaffordableโ€ housing is quite profitable if youโ€™re paying less than the price of a soda for land.

Why isnโ€™t the city running these rentals?

#topoli #toronto

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3/ Letโ€™s build medium density, mixed use rental buildings.

We can use the revenues from the commercial component to subsidize low income units in the building.

The current system of housing financialization and monetary policy is breaking how cities work. #LetsFixIt
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