The batteries would be stolen, and the bikes. Also the companies running it will scam people by giving them worn out batteries that don't hold a charge. And the people using it will be run down in the streets by some middle aged women texting behind the wheel of an SUV.

Big business doesn't need to lift a finger on this one.

>nd trains > electric cars for long trips

Laughs in rural

Cries in rural

>Well no. If it's status quo rather than disability and elderly only then you're just making the bike paths uninhabitable by children, new riders, etc.

Uninhabitable? The dutch manage just fine.

>the other needs heavy machinery.

It needs an engine crane,not exactly an expensive or hard to use piece of machinery.

Long term it'll shatter it into countless pieces, either by opening up interstellar colonisation or just by letting every commune and cult park a O'neill cylander in the oort cloud.

>Just the fact almost nobody in any western nation has to worry about water

Laughs in Flint.

Laughs in 3000 cities with worse water than Flint.

>and unfortunately eugenics for that matter.

Eugenics are real, just not very ethical.

>society is way better in every metric possible.

People back then had enough kids to prevent population decline, that's one catastrophic metric right there.

"Scientists believe genetically engineered martian spiders are the key to terraforming the red planet."

>That is my guess, a bunch of Bezos and Musks controlling it all.

Odds are someone with an army will take anything they manage to build.

Unless they've got better armies.