What Are You Doing Right Now
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
http://www.bbc.com/future/slideshow-gallery/20170224-the-eerie-cities-where-nobody-lives
That is really cool. If it wasn't for all the smog, I'd totally live in one of those. Would be so neat and, I assume, dirt cheap.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
http://www.bbc.com/future/slideshow-gallery/20170224-the-eerie-cities-where-nobody-lives
That is really cool. If it wasn't for all the smog, I'd totally live in one of those. Would be so neat and, I assume, dirt cheap.
Living in a big city without all the people. That could be cool... also I feel like that's where horror stories come from.
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If the city is empty, is there really smog left?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If the city is empty, is there really smog left?
Just look at the pictures!
Of course there is, smog doesn't come from people living in the city.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
http://www.bbc.com/future/slideshow-gallery/20170224-the-eerie-cities-where-nobody-lives
That is really cool. If it wasn't for all the smog, I'd totally live in one of those. Would be so neat and, I assume, dirt cheap.
Living in a big city without all the people. That could be cool... also I feel like that's where horror stories come from.
You can afford to bring friends with you! Get ten of us, get the penthouses all next door.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
http://www.bbc.com/future/slideshow-gallery/20170224-the-eerie-cities-where-nobody-lives
it's nearly impossible for me to imagine this. The government I guess just owns everything, so they can just spend without concern in the hopes that their spending will ultimately create economic growth...
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
http://www.bbc.com/future/slideshow-gallery/20170224-the-eerie-cities-where-nobody-lives
it's nearly impossible for me to imagine this. The government I guess just owns everything, so they can just spend without concern in the hopes that their spending will ultimately create economic growth...
You word that in a very strange way. It's simply called "investing."
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
so they can just spend without concern in the hopes that their spending will ultimately create economic growth...
Remember the 1930s in the US and all of the construction done?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
http://www.bbc.com/future/slideshow-gallery/20170224-the-eerie-cities-where-nobody-lives
it's nearly impossible for me to imagine this. The government I guess just owns everything, so they can just spend without concern in the hopes that their spending will ultimately create economic growth...
You word that in a very strange way. It's simply called "investing."
I suppose when you own everything, it is a form of investing. It's just so foreign to what I think is the US way of doing things... the US government doesn't own much, I know there is HUD housing, etc, but it's impossible for me to think that the US Gov could/would invest in building a whole city.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I suppose when you own everything, it is a form of investing.
What does "owning everything" have to do with it? And why do you imply that? China is very capitalistic, there is no "they own everything" at any level of the Chinese system.
It's a form of investing, plain and simple. The US does it every day.
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Its the little things. Home Lab. 6 in R10 ESXi Datastore, to a physical on mirror SSD. Same Procurve switch. I know it could be better, but its lab.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
... the US government doesn't own much, I know there is HUD housing, etc, but it's impossible for me to think that the US Gov could/would invest in building a whole city.
Doesn't it? It owns a LOT. And you don't think the US has built whole cities? Ever looked at some big artificial cities like Phoenix?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
... but it's impossible for me to think that the US Gov could/would invest in building a whole city.
Washington, DC?
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US has about 20 cities like this planned to be built currently.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
US has about 20 cities like this planned to be built currently.
OH? List? citations?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
US has about 20 cities like this planned to be built currently.
OH? List? citations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities#United_States
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I know there is HUD housing, etc, but it's impossible for me to think that the US Gov could/would invest in building a whole city.
HUD alone has helped to make nearly twenty of these just in our lifetime.
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Even three secret ones in the 1940s.
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In the US the government roles are split up. In China building a planned city is most likely going to be overseen by the central government. In the US it is more likely to be overseen by a state. But the Fed does this as well. And, of course, in both private ones happen, too.
