If it were anything like what you describe, I'd probably have given a lot more consideration to joining. Your proposed policy is likely to be superior to democr

If it were anything like what you describe, I'd probably have given a lot more consideration to joining. Your proposed policy is likely to be superior to democracy - democracies like Detroit can't even maintain standard of living high enough to avoid abandonment. Plus you can avoid a lot of rent seeking - if consumer surplus can be created by a massive increase in housing (ala SF, Mumbai), locals don't get to vote for rent seeking policies. In reality they didn't have anything remotely so coherent. It was just a variant of "lets hadoop all 200mb of our big data into the NoSQL for business intelligence insights".