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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by collyw on Sunday February 25, 2024 @04:38AM (#39499271)
Wealthy families mean you are able to take risks with your ideas, while the rest of us need to play it safer if we want to pay our rent.
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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by sokoloff on Sunday February 25, 2024 @06:02AM (#39499768)
Is there any possible correlation between high rents and high population?
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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by savingsPossible on Sunday February 25, 2024 @08:14AM (#39500533)
Possible, but you'd still have to prove it.

After all, buildings and higher density is possible, transit is possible.

Where I live (sao paulo) there are many people on the streets. However, there is housing for all of them. That just lies empty. For speculation and seeking higher rents. For airbnb and skirting renters protection laws.

We don't have too much people, we have capital that is too accumulated at the top and that expects too high returns

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