My opinion is generally is founded on a radically different premise than most economic models. I think we should be optimizing the arrangement of our people and

My opinion is generally is founded on a radically different premise than most economic models. I think we should be optimizing the arrangement of our people and society for fault tolerance. In the long-view, cities are deathtraps (I say as somebody who loves to live in one). Failures in any number of centralized systems could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths. A "fault-tolerant" society would look more like mostly self-sufficient communities of around 200 people with independent basic infrastructure: power, water, sewer, emergency services and food. These communities could be packed fairly tightly, but nowhere near as dense as modern cities. Independent critical infrastructures is required for any sort of real fault tolerance.