PORTABLE REAL ESTATE No more mass population movements to find a new homeland. Just pick up your homeland and move it somewhere else. Too crowded? Build add-ons to your homeland. There's always more space rocks.
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Which is why it would be sweet if NYC were mobile
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buddy, then it would be Mongolia Mongolia may be sweet if that's your thing--certainly a long history of portable real estate--but it is obviously not "valuable" in the sense we normally use for real estate (the most valuable parts are, surprise, the cities)
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Why is a city valuable Because it's got infrastructure and people If all of those things were mobile, its value would not be tied to it's location
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why did people go there and not somewhere else why did infrastructure get built there and not somewhere else you're not thinking about this question as seriously as you should be: why ARE cities valuable?
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access to water ways prior to the advent of stage coach and rail
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Even after, waterways have been invaluable.
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every major city is built on a harbor or navigable river
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are you even fucking trying right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing
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it's incredible to me that people still don't get this, despite literal towers of evidence
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Imagine how valuable that cheap land would be if you could guarantee the feds would never mess with you.
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indeed! but, as luck would have it, the same means by which you settle that land enable the feds to follow you to it
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Only when it's worth the effort. There are levels of civilization they will find and tax, and levels they won't (single-man farms way out in the bush). With the growth of scale to system-wide, it will be possible for cities of millions to be as worthwhile to tax as that yeoman.
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