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Old 05-09-2015, 10:09 AM #16
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Originally Posted by Livia View Post
So this island... what about the people who already live there? What happens to them? Their homeland gets sold out from under them and suddenly it's repopulated and they're foreigners in their own country. And if it's not an inhabited island, he has a whole infrastructure to build... roads, sewers, drainage, power, telecoms, hospitals, schools, houses... who's going to police it? It sounds like Sim City for a very rich man. An altruistic idea but ultimately unworkable.
I doubt it would be a hostile colonial style takeover like America or Australia, a brave new world, don't we all want that?
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