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Los Angeles area does NOT have the natural resources necessary to support such a large and highly dense human population. I've known this since I was a kid, when they stole our irrigation water from Northern California, when they stole water from Arizona. But people insist on living together in giant unsustainable greasy clumps. The fire spreading is a natural consequence of not having water, which was a natural consequence of putting too many people in that place. People can point fingers at the decisions of officials, but the problem isn't fundamentally solvable with government. Malthus wasn't wrong.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

sprawling suburbia is the result of fiat incentives, which are based on bullshit and their purpose is to maximise the theft of wealth from the many to the few

natural, wild people would want their villas and their vinyards and their herds of sheep, they wouldn't live in ticky tacky little boxes with no soul

it was only in the last 400 years that this has all become so prevalent, and this has been the era of fiat money, when the goldsmiths started to give out deposit certificates and then people started trading them as a method of payment, and modern banking began, about 400 years ago, and quickly we saw the first central bank in france and since then it has been a predictable descent into lunacy