It's the way our "Developed World" functions now - growth above all else. My brother recently built a house, and the taxes and fees from the local city council

It's the way our "Developed World" functions now - growth above all else. My brother recently built a house, and the taxes and fees from the local city council are sky high. Of course, the city council did just build themselves a lavish new office building for $20M that looks like it belongs in a contemporary art museum. It's no secret if they had just built a nice and functional building with the same office space for $10M everyone would be paying less city rates. But that's not how our world works.