How about affordable housing?
How about affordable housing?
The average person on earth would love it we could have readily available clean water, cheaper housing and food, reliable healthcare to retire without worrying.
That would actually be blissful beyond our wildest dreams: everyone around you and beyond being able to have a peaceful life.
But technology often can solve political problems by shifting the balance of power. Come up with more ways to make it easier for people to live away from high cost of living areas, for example, so that governments with high housing costs start losing tax base to other jurisdictions.
Then, I just buy houses in High COL areas and start popping them up and moving families in ASAP. What are they gonna do evict working families? Good luck
Then dissolve the underlying corporation before the municipal fines kick in and escape into the night. Render municipal and neighborhood control laws meaningless.
*may not be humanoid, I'm skirting that debate here.
This seems optimistic.
It's simply pitting the most dysfunctional municipal and judicial systems against each other with the default outcome being people being housed.
The municipality can’t take away the land (most of the value here) and putting the house on top will be relatively cheap, given the low total labor costs.
If the whole affair is revenue neutral, that's a huge win.
they do this all the time!
At the very least, moving heavy extractive industries out of the biosphere would be a sensible allocation of resources: metal and energy are common in the solar system, but life supporting ecosystems are not.
(Or both)
But space colonization is cool and poor people are yickie.
It was the one genuine, serious potential improvement.