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> Playing SimCity as a young kid taught me that raising taxes too much means people and businesses leave. Maybe the SF lawmakers did not play SimCity growing up
by tablespoon 4y ago
> Playing SimCity as a young kid taught me that raising taxes too much means people and businesses leave. Maybe the SF lawmakers did not play SimCity growing up.
That may be so, but SimCity didn't teach you about the real world, it taught you about SimCity. The simplified worlds of simulations often have ideological assumptions baked in, either deliberately or inadvertently.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoAre you suggesting that no part of SimCity is based on “the real world”? See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531997 currently front page on HN
- tablespoon 4y agoI'm saying SimCity isn't the real world, it's DOS-based entertainment. So you can't jump from "SimCity behaves thusly" to "the world behaves thusly."
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoHow do you explain the influx of businesses to places like Austin? It has nothing to do with taxes?
- aaomidi 4y agoLow land price is one. Moving businesses isn't free or cheap. These companies are gonna struggle once Texas goes full fascist. How many parents want to raise their kids in Texas now? What if your kid is LGBT? Anyway, good luck to companies moving into Texas. Market short term planning do be showing its face.
- tablespoon 4y ago> How do you explain the influx of businesses to places like Austin? It has nothing to do with taxes? Dude, SimCity isn't the real world, and cherry-picking some correspondence doesn't change that. Even a stopped clock will sometimes give you the right time.
- ekianjo 4y ago> I'm saying SimCity isn't the real world, it's DOS-based entertainment So by that logic everything is worthless because nothing is the real world. Good luck working with that mindset.
- allarm 4y agoIt’s not even remotely close to what he said.
- rbanffy 4y agoThe models in games are usually optimised for entertainment rather than predictive accuracy.
- lovecg 4y agoSimCity definitely reflects the values of its creators. After being brainwashed by SimCity as a kid it took me a while to realize that things like for example zoning are not some law of nature governing how cities are organized and the real world is infinitely more varied.
- nso95 4y agoExcept it got this part right..
- ekianjo 4y ago> SimCity didn't teach you about the real world, It's not because you use simple models for reality that the models are wrong. They may be wrong in extreme circumstances but still generally true - like all models.
- darthrupert 4y agoIt completely ignores that tax rates do not exist in a void. Rather, states are in tax competition against each other, so it's not about absolute tax rates but relative tax rates.