
The benefits of longterm thinking in the TikTok age
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Importance of Thinking 200 Years Into the Future
Dublin is a seaside town. And yet we have blocked it off. We have a housing crisis. Yet we don't entertain the single most obvious prime real estate in the country, which is owned by us. Nobody else owns it. The state owns it. We are the shareholders of Dublin. We could move Dublin port. If you wanted to self-financing that move, you could do that by superimposing the new density of pool bag onto this new site,. 135 grand per site cost is a bargain. At that price, you've paid for everything. That's how you build cities. Overengineer the project and think about 200 years into the future.
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