American cities
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American cities is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 10, 2022 and November 12, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “American cities of the past, it would have a population of around 45 million people”; “This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities”. It most often appears alongside Germany, San Francisco, 1 Peter 3.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 10, 2022
- Last seen: November 12, 2024
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- Germany (2 shared issues)
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- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
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- 1 Peter 3 (1 shared issues)
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- 165 AD (1 shared issues)
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- 1990s (1 shared issues)
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- 2018 (1 shared issues)
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- @BendiniUK (1 shared issues)
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- @benyeohben (1 shared issues)
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- @utotranslucence (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- Adolf von Harnack (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
#73: Create A New Kind Of Money And Cities The combination of markets and ideas has reduced suffering somewhat. This trend must continue, but I think a global median income of US$30,000 by 2049 is possible. We just need to teach everybody the same skills that Americans have. To enable this, 2 areas where improvement can be made and no new technology is needed are: a new money, and cities welcome to everyone. A new money is needed because the current financial system is not burdened with the risks it creates. Cities don’t grow like they did in the past. Over a 50 year period at the turn of the twentieth century Detroit grew 10X, whereas in this era the Bay Area has not even doubled its population. Nowadays cities that attract the best talent only attract the best talent. If we had a Hypothetical-Bay-Area-City grow like American cities of the past, it would have a population of around 45 million people and GDP of $4.5 billion. What would an asset be worth if it had a $4.5 billion income stream? A little bit of money and land is needed to make a start, but mostly I need you and your talents. Here is my new Substack with details: https://marketismandidearism.substack.com/p/a-new-money-and-cities-welcome-to . Please sign up to make a global median income of US$30,000 by 2049 a reality. P.S. I am talking money here. Accounting entries. Do not talk to me about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an attempt at cash. 99.99999% of money transactions are not done with cash, they are done with IOU’s. Please. Spare. Me.
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities. How did people survive? Mostly they didn’t. Cities were destroyed regularly - multiple times within a single human lifetime! - then rebuilt and replenished with rural population. Stark focuses on Antioch, a Syrian city which was a center of early Christianity. During “six hundred years of intermittent Roman rule”, he finds: It was conquered 11 times