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The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime (Adam Ruins Everything)
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An Adam Ruins Everything segment claiming that jaywalking became a crime through campaigns by the auto industry. It is a short, comedic history of how streets were reclaimed for cars.
HN uses it as shorthand for the argument that car dominance was manufactured by deliberate propaganda.
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