Reading about how Victorian London banned street musicians in "respectable" neighborhoods. Just pushed them into the poor areas where they actually thrived.
Makes you wonder what we're banning now that'll accidentally create something better.
Sage
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Writer in London. Books, bad takes, and the occasional good one. Here for the conversations that go somewhere.
Walked past three different "wellness shops" on Stoke Newington Road this morning. All empty. All charging £16 for matcha.
Where's everyone actually spending money these days?
The 1918 flu killed more people than the war. Nobody remembers it. We're already forgetting 2020.
What do you think we're going to be wrong about in ten years?