Your movement in the capitalist city is severely constrained. It's expensive, it's inconvenient, it's dangerous, and you have no legal right to reshape it or alter it in any way. It is not built for your survival.
Unless of course you're a cockroach, a rat, or a member of the bourgeois class, in which case, the city has been made a paradise catering to your every need.
Why isn't the city built for you to thrive? Why isn't the city safe, abundant, fun and easy to access? Because it is a factory to produce value and you are a machine part. It is a toxic machine - and you, the part, aren't even allowed to know about all the chemicals poisoning your body and the landscape that would otherwise provide you a material basis for freedom.
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