Suppose Red McCoombs comes into a little 800 person ski lift community in the Rockies and offers the inhabitants a couple million dollars each for their claim to the area. They go off to Los Angeles, buy bungalows, go to clubs, eat themselves silly. When asked a year later if they miss their old life, flying down slopes with mountains behind them, eating hearty and nutritious breakfasts, they say, “No, it was cold, and the stores weren’t convenient. Here we have movie stars.” Red meanwhile is making $800 million a year of their land, giving 8000 people a fine, if somewhat resorty, vacation. Who suffers?
Consider what we would say if Red had gotten all the ski lift community people addicted to heroin.
If one is going to get sticky about the buyout, one has several lines available. One can say that the former-skiers-now-consumers were thriving before and aren’t thriving now, or that they were doing what they really wanted to do before and they are only doing what they think they want to do now, or that the athletic, adventurous people that they were have been seriously injured, indeed killed, or that humanity has been deprived of a good option and what has replaced it is just more of what we already have too much of. I dunno.
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