I will preface this by saying that I hate sprawl and think we should figure out how to disincentivize it. But why would the size of a city growing magically mak

I will preface this by saying that I hate sprawl and think we should figure out how to disincentivize it. But why would the size of a city growing magically make people more wealthy? It isn’t magic, a person would need to somehow get a piece of the city via real estate or a business to benefit from population growth.