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> The people there aren't meaningfully less free They pay twice my mortgage to rent a tiny, cramped apartment from a slumlord who can't keep the plumbing func

• giraffe_lady 4y ago
  You can have that experience as well in an american mid-sized city or a large exurb in an area where you can only access work or a grocery store in a private car. I have lived in such places in fact. So I'm not at all convinced that accessible transit creates slumlords or whatever the argument even is there. You can make shitty places to live with or without cars. That's not an argument, in itself, for making them with cars.
  • jjoonathan 4y ago
    I lived in shitty apartments that cost a king's ransom before I escaped to the suburbs. Magnasanti reminds me of those. An extortionate real estate situation can absorb all of the benefits brought by density, and more besides. It's great for the slumlords -- or, more accurately, the real estate investment trusts representing the interests of the Magnasanti quadrillionaires -- but it sure sucks to be a drone stuck in their factorio game. Why should I want that?