MMC: Mansions, Mobilitarianism, Caves of Steel.
This world could really work, and what's more, would make a great near-future setting. 
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The mansions and cities would be connected by secure transportation, supply chain, and comms, paid for by LVT. The would form an internet-like society. The interstices would be allowed to be rewilded. If people set up a new city or mansion, they can pay for an MMC-net hook-up.
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The problem with our political imagination is that we keep trying to add solutions to new problems to existing solution stacks. Not only does it all get worse it also gets more boring. Nobody wants to live in Westphalian Nation State Version 13.2, Service Pack 4.5.
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Ideas like UBI are like bug fix proposals. The sci-fi test: would you want to read a novel set in a world where your policy proposals are true? Or would it read like a dry, wonky GAO report with no story to it.
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And the “solution” sets are equally dull. Corporate dystopia v 14.17.11 isn’t more appealing. The problem is if you go too far off the map no one will follow. So you have to find a sweet spot of different enough to be challenging but still relatable. All while being unique.
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We know little about undesign, and we have even less motivation to do it.
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I strongly recommend the Terra Ignota books.
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