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You cannot have freedom of settlement, regulation of construction and poor people not getting the short end of the stick. Unfortunately the world is trying it'

You cannot have freedom of settlement, regulation of construction and poor people not getting the short end of the stick. Unfortunately the world is trying it's best to fit itself into as few megapolicies as possible. With Bangkok converting Thailand to something resembling a city state. And the insane productivity of cities means that this is potential endgame for all countries.

thaumasiotes 6y ago
> You cannot have freedom of settlement, regulation of construction and poor people not getting the short end of the stick. Sure, but that's just an obvious corollary of the more fundamental observation "you cannot have poor people not getting the short end of the stick". That's what we mean when we call them "poor".