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The question of who "deserves" to live in a city, and who gets to decide that, is as old as cities themselves, and nobody's found a good answer yet. Remember t
by bandrami 7y ago
The question of who "deserves" to live in a city, and who gets to decide that, is as old as cities themselves, and nobody's found a good answer yet.
Remember that every current resident who isn't evicted means one person who wants to move in to the city isn't able to.
- epistasis 7y agoThere's a great answer: everybody who wants to live there. Any other answer or non-answer is fundamentally unjust and wrong.
- throwawaybbb 7y agoOk give me your address. I'll call a developer and well start a 120 story highrise where you live. You'll end up living in a much worse place when it's all said and done but anything else would be immoral.
- Apocryphon 7y agoMost SF techies are YIMBYs, so that is a very much "please don't throw me into the briar patch" threat.
- nine_k 7y agoI don't know about 120, but an edifice with just 102 stories, the Empire State Building, sort of made the vicinity of it better. At the very least, nearby properties did not depreciate. Of course if you don't like bustling city life, you may see it differently. I would recommended moving to suburbia it the countryside then.
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- Redoubts 7y ago> Ok give me your address. I'll call a developer and well start a 120 story highrise where you live. Good. Maybe the US will have a third city then.
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