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Re:Ask HN: How can we digitise housing by claudiulodro on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:46AM (#27571185)
Housing isn't infinitely replicate-able like music is. That's why music is basically free now, and that's the fundamental obstacle I think.

My off-the-wall hair-brained solution would be to infill a ton of the ocean. Since the Earth is 75% ocean, we could double the available landmass and still have 50% of the ocean! That would be plenty of land for everyone!

Re:Ask HN: How can we digitise housing by xhkkffbf on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:33PM (#27571615)
Not to be petty, but water is about 8lbs per gallon. A ton is only 250 gallons. So filling in a ton of the ocean isn't going to be very much.