I thought that was the joke.

That’s right! They’re better off spending it on lobbying so they end up getting more money!

They might commute if it was easy and cheaper than what they’re paid. You want workers, make it worth their while.

Very interesting. What browser are you using?

I should add that this is for PC only. Mobile browsers not supported, unfortunately.

Oh dear 😅 please let me know what level you reach when you do eventually try! My max is level 3. Might need some minor tweaks.

I’m not American, and just wondering if it’s a requirement to have the $600/m taken from your pay, which I’m assuming is for health insurance? That’s a crazy amount to throw away every year, especially if you still have to pay extra for treatments that you need for functioning.

Any Sydneysiders care to comment on this? My understanding is that the northern suburbs are much more wealthy than the others, so this project appears to be placating to the upper classes rather than servicing areas like the west which is poorer. Happy to be corrected.

So, how do we engineer a situation in which the richest suffer most? End of capitalism?

Dragon Age origins.

Exceptional writing and I walked right into it just expecting a cool fantasy game. I got hit with my first experience of in game romances, the shock of betrayal, the sacrifices… It was such a brilliant experience. Makes me really, really want to play it again now.

Not rose coloured for me. I made VHS copies of the ones I loved with masking tape on the front as a label. Got great use out of those copies. And all for a low, low price!

Rain is no problem for me. It feels kind of liberating.

Snow… I’ve never ridden in snow. I propose dog sledding as a substitute.

The Mitchells vs the machines did it best. It was a great and entertaining story and I loved all the characters. Perhaps Disney should just make a story that’s worth telling?

Uploading all of your collected data to the cloud

There are also those who make bad decisions and are lazy but have a lot of money and power regardless. Being lazy/making terrible decisions does not equal poor; same as being hard working/making good decisions.

The system at this stage is just geared towards making the poor poorer and the rich richer. E.g. making people pay lots of money to stay healthy rather than give people equal opportunity, making good education only accessible to the rich by making it prohibitively expensive, the wage divide between an employee and a CEO, family trusts and associated taxes etc.

Spicy take: we need to curb our addiction to power sources.

OpenRA

Whoops. My bad!

Depends. It’s a business here and there are lots of young people with MBAs and not enough experience to contextualise the things learned within the masters. I mean, some are even doing it post grad.

From my past experience with these types of people, I have a very low opinion on young people with MBAs. Business degree holders who want a shortcut to the top.

Like, why would you ever build a city differently in the first place?

Exactly. Unfortunately, in Australia, we tend to borrow stupid ideas from the US to make money and have sprawling suburbs with zero amenity.

For instance, we had a new suburbian development within 20km from the CBD with the promise of schools, community centres etc. in the early 2000s. When all the houses were bought and built, suddenly there’s no money for amenities so they just sold the land to developers who then put more houses in. Now the only way to get anything you need is by car because there’s no train or buses because it was supposed to be accessible by bike/walking but now isn’t. And not to mention gridlock of vehicles looking to get out of the suburbs for food etc. out of the one intersection provided.

I would love 15min cities without cars for my country but the attitude to cars here is similar to the attitude about guns in the US.