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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by pzo on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:11PM (#34222264)
This would definity create some issues if the change would be fast but also there would be some possitive side effects where it would solve few problems, e.g. if population over time decreases by 50% suddenly current real estates problems would be much easier to solve.
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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by kevinmchugh on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:56PM (#34222819)
Who's going to do the maintenance on the existing housing stock? Who's going to demolish the decrepit and abandoned buildings?
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Re:Should we care about people who need never exist? by Sebb767 on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:00PM (#34224259)
Real estate is not really a space problem; we have a lot of nice, uninhabited land all over the globe. The problem is that people want to live near denser areas for various reasons and reducing the world population will (probably) only reduce the number of dense areas, but not the housing problem within them.
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