I wish people would look at things like this with a more realistic eye and realize this is an out and out sham. A building with a photovoltaic roof isn't going to produce enough power for itself, let alone distribute it to everyone else. The renderings shown are in some cases completely unbuildable. There is insufficient structure to hold the weight. Since when is Appalachian or Idaho a desert? Equitism Tower just because we want to meet all of the current PC/Woke hot buttons. Aeroponic farming is more concerned with space than water, but hey - it sounds good. A "new model for society"? I think someone may be watching too much Star Trek. 'City would allow residents to “participate in the decision-making and budgeting process."', oh, you mean like democracy? And finally we come to the crux of the problem 'The investor cites capitalism’s “significant flaws,” attributing many of them to “the land ownership model that America was built on.”' Someone who made hundreds of millions off capitalism and then sold it to Walmart for huge sums of money want to go down a socialist route. Much like Bernie Sanders (one of the few politicians I think is sincere) likes to complain about property ownership as well, yet he manages to own three homes worth millions of dollars. Not to put too fine a point on it, capitalism is what has brought most of our world changing innovations, it created (amongst other things) Disney World. Capitalist countries, without exception, have a higher sustainable standard of living than other systems.
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