[–] 4 points 1 year ago

Cities are not functionally free market. You could have control of layout, zoning, regulations, infrastructure design and allocation, tax incentives, etc.

Not sure how well this would model a real city where the "freehand" is guided by countless individual decisions.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Partially it's that we glorify them, which gives them opportunity. Plus, decades of fame goes to their heads.

    Partially, it's also that average nobodies are abusive shit heads too, we just don't write articles about them.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To avoid armed targets, they have been calling people into court hearings, then they drop charges which allows people to leave. On the way out of the courthouse feds will abduct them.

    It's pretty brilliant. If people become too scared to show up to court, then they get a real judicial warrant which allows them forcibly go into homes.

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