Especially with more efficient vertical farms coming online now...
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Replying to @RokoMijic @UDepravity
Which one of these is better?pic.twitter.com/MvREWfToaJ
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It's an empirical question in land value terms. Nice to live next to the one on the right (scenery and peace of nature), nice to have another farm next to the one on the left (density of other players in your industry located near you means there are service industries for you)
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @UDepravity
More beautiful forests and meadows would make Britain a nicer place to live. I used to live near some of the most beautiful areas in the UK, I could get lost in a forest, find a hidden lake, crest a hill and watch the sun set. Just walk all day.
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If we can get food from vertical farming there's no reason not to have a lot of natural places.
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Ultimately this is aesthetics. Maybe vertical farming isn't the most economically efficient use of land b/c there's no value in GBP that can be assigned to having more open forests but that shouldn't stop a sovereign and we shouldn't have to pretend to have an "optimal" answer.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @UDepravity
> there's no value in GBP that can be assigned to having more open forests You could just pay for a forest access pass. It sounds crazy but there might be something to it. Especially if you had the technology to guarantee sunshine (orbital mirrors!) and fast transport.
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You don't have to be bound by an economic mindset that maximizes and optimizes each transaction to show that it's the most Pareto-efficient state. "People should like forests and spending time in them, our state provides this for people's moral, spiritual and physical health"
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @UDepravity
True. It's likely that the most efficient way to provide this is a voucher system. Everyone gets assigned wilderness vouchers and they can spend them to access wilderness, which could be private. The government or local associations could also run some.
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I understand the appeal of that kind of a solution but ultimately it comes down to an effort to get the approval of a system that hates you. "With vouchers we can improve everyone's well-being and it's provable" Just skip the step where you prove it.
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The reason to prove it is because of worry about being undermined by academics seeking power - but that's a flaw in your government structure - once you realize that you realize that there's no way to keep a government designed to be undermined in that way from being undermined.
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There's no mechanical solution out of the book of insights from economics to produce good governance out of what we have now.
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