• OhStopYellingAtMe
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    701 month ago

    The board game Monopoly was designed to mock landlords and call out the greed and cruelty inherent in the real estate market.
    Has Cities Skylines inadvertently done the same?

  • @[email protected]
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    361 month ago

    Make a shit river that keeps them all too sick to travel. I’m not kidding. Have all the sewage dump into a canal that runs through the poor industrial district and fill it with coal power plants and landfills. You can also put only one road going in and out, and make it very difficult to get to the rich part of town from the poor part. You can also make people even more sick by having a special water system only for the poor district that just sucks in the shit water from the rich district and discharges it back into the same canal. Now of course, this will make people extremely sick so you need a lot of hospitals in the poor district but unfortunately you can’t make them cause massive medical debt that make people more tied to their jobs.

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      101 month ago

      “in this video essay I will describe the pervasive conditions in our current society and their roots…”

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    1 month ago

    Give preferential tax treatment to income from investment, remove any regulations on trading on housing real estate or land ownership concentration, and lower interest rates to made passive investment strategies unappealing thus incentivising wealthier people to go into assets such as real estate, so that over time house prices shoot up and lower income people stop being able to move and they and their descendants are stuck doing low income jobs.

    Certainly that’s how it works in real life, though I’m not sure of Cities Skyline has a deep enough simulation for that.

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    21 month ago

    Immigration, duh! You get uneducated immigrants to do those jobs, over time they become educated, so you get more immigrants. At the end of the day, you have a vibrant city with more workers for every job, and better food besides.