Why should cities build more densely now if truly massive job displacement is coming in as little as 10 years?
Why do people need to live in cities? To be near jobs that won't exist? Why shouldn't they be moving to less expensive low density situations if they're not going to have jobs?
If you're going to think and talk about these massive fundamental structural changes to the economy, then it's best to step 5 or 10 steps further back and start looking at the really big pictures.
> Why do people need to live in cities?
Short answer: economy of scale. Higher population density is ecologically more sustainable as well as it lowers the cost of services.
It's a bit of a paradox then that city living is generally considered more expensive given that the economies of scale should kick in.
Presumably someone is making money here, probably owners of the land, which goes up in value thanks mostly to the efforts of the other people in the city, not anything the land owner does, as proponents of a Land Value Tax would argue.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 21.3 ms ] threadWhy do people need to live in cities? To be near jobs that won't exist? Why shouldn't they be moving to less expensive low density situations if they're not going to have jobs?
If you're going to think and talk about these massive fundamental structural changes to the economy, then it's best to step 5 or 10 steps further back and start looking at the really big pictures.
Presumably someone is making money here, probably owners of the land, which goes up in value thanks mostly to the efforts of the other people in the city, not anything the land owner does, as proponents of a Land Value Tax would argue.