Back to episode — Episode 189 Scott Adams - Some BlightAuthority.com Ideas and Tour of Scott’s Home
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All right, so here's the idea. You've got a big patch of blank space in an urban area. In fact, there are lots of these, and there will be more of them as the blight that already exists is torn down in the future. And a number of these already exist thanks to Bill Pulte's good work with the Blight Authority, a nonprofit that works with cities. This is important. They work with the mayors, with the…
← Previous segment →I'm gonna comment first on the person who said no socialism. Keep in mind first of all that these are very small parts of the entire country, and nobody has to live there. We're not talking about making the entire city this way. We're talking about experiments, small experiments. Some of them might look something like this. Some of them might have no socialism. Some might have some experiments of sharing things like tools or sharing rides, something like that. But I'm not going to call that socialism. I think that's a great disservice to try to label things that way. Sometimes sharing works, sometimes it doesn't. Maybe we can experiment, find out where it does and where it doesn't.
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All right, so that said, here are some ideas just to stimulate thought. The number one thing that I hear about improving urban areas is that you have to take care of security first. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what you build because nobody wants to live there, nobody wants a business there, nobody wants to shop there, nobody wants to raise children there. So security has got to be your…
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