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0 pointsblakeyrat9y ago0 comments

Ok I want lake-front property with a view of Mount Rainier. What address do I send my blueprint to?

Oh wait.

I'll never understand why people who promote this "magical robots solve everything" view ignore the simple examples that robots, no matter how sophisticated, cannot fix. For example, scarcity of prime real estate.

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hacker_99y ago

One of the main problems with housing is it is stuck in place, which gives rise to lots of problems:

1. you have to build round existing structures

2. if the sea level rises, there is nothing you can do

3. small roads can't be widened to accommodate heavier traffic and so on.

In the future the concept of a fixed house would be bizarre, with everything being able to be made portable. It would be normal to have giant shifts in house placement and rewiring of pipes and electricity via AI bots, in order to accommodate change.

blakeyratOP9y ago

Ok so it's the future and the magical robots can easily move houses.

Why would the guy with the beautiful lake front property move his house? Why would he make his lot smaller to let other people live closer to him? What's his incentive?

Being able to easily move a house doesn't do anything to make lake front property less scarce.

If your answer is: "the government would force him", then that sounds more like a dystopia than a utopia.

marcosdumay9y ago

> In the future the concept of a fixed house would be bizarre, with everything being able to be made portable.

People have been predicting this for some 200 years. It's older than flying cars.

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