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Why don't they just buy an island like other billionaires?
by cratermoon 3y ago
Why don't they just buy an island like other billionaires?
- db48x 3y ago100 years ago people founded cities all the time. Why is it so unpopular today?
- rthomas6 3y agoI think people already lived there and collectively decided to found a city where they were. Rich out of towners swooping in and buying local land hasn't worked out well for the locals historically.
- cratermoon 3y agoYeah, in the US towns tended to grow up organically, after settlement by colonizers who stole the land from the indigenous residents. The white man staked property claims where none existed, and now the descendants of those white settlers live where the Patwin Indians lived and claim the right to exclude others. That said, most of the island that they might buy were also home to other peoples before the current owners.
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>Rich out of towners swooping in and buying local land Exactly how the City of Houston was founded.
- panick21_ 3y agoGuess what in places like Europe founding cities wasnt very common a few 100 years ago. Can you think of a reason why this was normal in the US and not in Europe? And how this could inform the current situation?
- Eisenstein 3y agoBecause all the nice ones that aren't taken already are going to be under water in a few years.
- worksonmine 3y agoInvestment opportunity, get some scientists to figure out where the beachfront is going to end up. Seeing the old cities by boat can also probably be a great tourist attraction, I can already see the memories being made. Grandmother telling the story of how she used to live in that building, and the rent was as cheap as $2000, or the price of a bar of chocolate.