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Sure, but Japan and Singapore having safe and clean public transportation isn’t entirely down to HBD giving them a better population to work with up front- part of running a dense civilization is that sufficiently noncomformist people get beaten by the police until they stop generating negative externalities by either being weird or antisocial. This makes progressives uncomfortable, because they have sympathy for the mentally ill underclass types that insist on being weird and antisocial in public spaces, unlike people who have to deal with them. So the USA spreads out to where whackadoodles can’t bother you that much.
Look, I know it sounds I’m saying the Twitter rightist creed ‘all of America is about spending money to escape niggers’ but it really isn’t. There are white hobos who camp out in public places in dense, affordable areas and make life uncomfortable for everyone too, and in a country like the US where just about every household can afford a car anyways it’s not actually spending money to escape them anyways- it’s spending distance. These aren’t Latin American elite style gated communities. People just want to be far away from places crammed together so much that someone being weird is being weird directly in your face.
Some Dutch acquaintances of mine who moved to Texas for laws friendlier to religious weirdos have noted that the distances in standard suburbs are too great to bike around, which is disappointing to them because of what they were used to. It’s not money that keeps out the riffraff; it’s distance. To solve the distance problem the riffraff would need to be constrained and American society is unwilling to do so.
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