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Sure. Everyone also aspires to fly private. The point being we need to figure out how to not destroy nature while allowing people to live meaningful lives and

• refurb 4y ago
  That may be true in some countries, but it's not true in the US or Canada. In fact your comment is just bizarre when you look at the numbers. The US has enough land to give every single person (man, woman, child - not household) almost 7 acres of land. The idea that we need pack ourselves in to <1% of the land mass in dense urban cores or else, as you put it we can't live "meaningful lives" (do you decide what's meaningful?) or "destroying nature" is just wrong. And the best part? We can afford it! We don't need the federal government backing "jumbo" leans for $1M apartments in San Francisco - instead they can back mortgages for 5 homes in the mid-West. And this is a big shocker - a lot of it's already developed because we need places to grow food!
  • kelnos 4y ago
    How do you economically electrify all those those evenly-spaced 7-acre plots of land? How do you build roads to all of them? How do you deliver mail to all of them? How do you get water and sewer lines to all of them (wells don't work everywhere, and septic tanks pollute and just generally suck)? Hell, what company is going to lay down fiber or even coax to all of them? How do you build grocery stores such that people don't have to drive 90 minutes to get one, but there aren't so few customers per store that most of the produce spoils before it can be bought? I know you're exaggerating for effect, but every degree that you spread people out means greater and greater investments in infrastructure and utilities you need to build and maintain, and some things we take for granted today just become infeasible. And I agree that it's ridiculous to pay $1,000 per square foot (or more!) for housing in San Francisco. But that's not because of some sort of natural consequence of things, it's actually because it's not dense enough, and the political will to force more building just isn't there. Housing is so expensive here because, despite all the bad things about the city, despite the alleged COVID exodus, we still have far far more people who want to live here than the available housing can support.
  • throwaway6734 4y ago
    Who pays for the infrastructure to connect all of these places?
    • sgt 4y ago
      Why, the taxpayer does.
    • refurb 4y ago
      Usually the developers of the subdivision? Hence the buyers of the property? I take you’ve never asked utilities the costs for hook ups? They are happy to give you a quote. It’s sure not the taxpayers the next town over paying $50,000 for a sewer hookup.
  • RC_ITR 4y ago
    Wow you really hate nature huh? Like sure the space exists (ignoring the fact that most of that land is inhospitable and/or already used for agriculture), but maybe we should leave something for the other species? But hey, maybe your 7 acres is at the top of the Sierra and you can get some good fire insurance.
• presentation 4y ago
  For what it’s worth I have 0 aspiration to fly private and also 0 aspiration for a suburban McMansion.