• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Because life is better that way! It’s much nicer to live in a safe, walkable, integrated, and prosperous community than it is to live in a walled compound surrounded by ghettos.

    💯

    Selfish rich people should be properly selfish and make the world better so they don’t have to be grossed out by poors. Or worry about heli skiing becoming impossible one day. Be selfish richies!


    Hey economists love VAT I hear?

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I’m reminded by the story I once read about Eritrea, a country with wealthy enclaves for the royal family plus foreign petro-engineers. The enclaves have these walls along the road with vast ghettos on the other side.

      It’s a miserable place. The engineers tend not to stay long. Just make a lot of money in a short time period and then leave.