There are only like a handful of good reasons for high-density living 1. Energy efficiency 2. Social/dating life for young singles 3. Tribal life for sports/music fans 4. Superlinear economic/cultural effects (Geoffrey West) 5. Economies of scale for provisioning shared services
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For different reasons, both left and right like dense, close-up living. Left likes large dense cities with highrises, right likes small, dense towns and villages where everybody knows each other. Me, I'd like a mansion, with authoritah over the grounds, mean dogs on the grounds.
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Left hates this because it is unseemly ostentation that goes against humble, collectivist values of sharing in scarcity. Right hates it because only the divine king should live in such ostentation, and it's basically middle class++
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Not talking high-end mansions like Downton Abbey. Just mansion-ey enough that you don't have to deal with or even see neighbors, and can set up your own local reality distortion field that others must respect if they get past the guard dogs.
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Dude the digital nomad is moving to cryptocurrency wealth with ocean roaming catamarans and Starlink internet connection. You can own a billion dollars now on a USB stick and roam islands. Mansions are just expensive fire hazards.
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You always could, ask your banker to bring your portfolio statements to the boat
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will never happen at any real scale because of #2. too much of life centers around finding someone to have sex with (now or forever). i think a more people will escape, and try to escape a bit sooner, tho.
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This sounds like "suburbs, but more spread out, and further from the city"? Doesn't this completely cut you off? Don't see anbody by chance on a walk, can't walk to the shops, can't go into town without a long drive, friends are miles away, etc. Why not villages?
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we call those "exurbs"
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McMansions or bust
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