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patphil

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56. And how long would it be before these like-minded Magat's got sick of one or more aspects of their "perfect cities"?

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Sun Oct 6, 2024, 03:23 PM

Oct 6

They'd decide they should "fix" things to make their cities better. It wouldn't be long before they would all want to do this, and eventually they'd all be at each other's throats. Some of the biggest problems would be how the slices of the economic and political pies would be distributed. Who's going to be rich and who isn't? Who's going to make the laws, and who's going to have to follow them? Who's going to be at the bottom of the social strata, and who will be at the top?
You know that the Magat's are all-in on greed, intolerance, and judgment. These folks need someone to scapegoat, and aren't about to change just because they live in "paradise".
I expect the citizens of these perfect cities would essentially burn them to the ground within 100 years.

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