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Such a good essay.
https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/
As soon as a person/consumer acquires a lawn, their demand for lawns jumps to a higher level, and the more of other people's lawns that are around, the more diluted the value of one's own lawn becomes; the economy functionally cannot meet the demand for people having a lawn.
Begun, the lawn wars have.
God I remember my uncle's lawn-feud with his neighbor, them constantly trying to one-up each other with nicer lawns. Pathetic.