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Originally Posted by pai mei
I want to know why does Homo Sapiens (in the year 2009) builds cities and leaves them empty. There are enough people who need some real shelter. I don't want answers like "the information on some hard disk in some dungeon - says that people cannot use the city they built" or "they play a complex game, and they are low on their important numbers!".[/b]
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I honestly have no clue what your last two sentences mean. I have a very hard time understanding your posts.
However, regarding the empty city: I'm pretty liberal, but it is clear even to me that this city is a perfect example of why centralized economies are a terrible idea. If a government decides to build a city from scratch, but screws up because nobody actually wants to live there, then huge amounts of money, time, and effort are wasted. Resources that could have gone to other needy areas are diverted needlessly.
Now obviously something similar can happen on a smaller scale in a market economy (see: Florida, Arizona, SoCal, etc.). But these phantom communities would never have come into existence if our financial services sector was properly regulated - while the Chinese ghost city was actually part of the government plan. Which, uh, leads me back to my original point of centralized economies being terrible.