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?

Kinda reminds me of a thought I had in Factorio. I was flame throwering trees to get then the hell out of my way, and I thought that this was a little on the nose about how manufacturing might actually work - fuck the environment it's keeping me from growing my factory!

This game removed landlords to fix high rent cost issue lol. if only life imitates art

Is there a game mechanic for funding right-wing populism and making the rejection of education a badge of belonging?

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.

The way Cities Skyline saved this was by making unions and a policy called “smart industry” because it was a real problem

The game actually has a solution for this, it’s what the district option labeled “Schools Out” is for. It will prevent people in that district from pursuing education beyond high school.

In Surviving Mars, I had a similar problem.

SM unlike the usual city builders, builds a command economy and starts with no colonists (just drones) and then they show up ten or twenty at a time. There are no higher salaries or higher standards of living; what they make for the community is there for everyone.

And then I directed them to build a university. Education was open to everyone. PHDs for everybody!

But then everyone wanted to be a scientist or engineer. It wasn't enough to be smart yet stuck with the job of grocery operator, or in freight inventory management. They wanted to use their newly developed skills, and explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and civilizations (even if in the lab rather than by starship)

Underemployment was a factor, and my custodial staff empowered with degrees in philosophy would lose morale and eventually go renegade (turn to crime) when I forced them to just continue to work the cranes and stock the grocery shelves.

Get this man a position in the Trump Whitehouse!

Have you tried creating a drug epidemic?

In CS1 you can still grow the economy with industry and offices. Various typess of industry need various types of education. Idk about CS2 though.

1. Read a newspaper

2. Do that

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.

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.

Invest in AI, robotics

Read The Power Broker

Is this skylines 2? I don’t remember having demographic issues in my skylines cities.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.