daylightatheism,

https://onlysky.media/alee/why-libertarian-cities-fail/ An update on Rio Verde Foothills, the libertarian city in the desert in Arizona that I wrote about previously.

RVF found a clever way to skirt Arizona regulations about having a water supply for new development. Then they discovered, to their total surprise, that even if you find a loophole in the law... humans still need water.

Like the ant and the grasshopper, they were relying on others who planned better than they did. For several years, they were parasitizing the water supply of the neighboring town of Scottsdale, until Scottsdale had enough and cut them off.

raphael_fl,

@daylightatheism Well, you're clearly being completely unfair. No one could have predicted that human beings need water. Besides, everyone knows that water comes from faucets.

jamesbritt,
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@daylightatheism

The striking thing was how fast these cosplaying "libertarians" ran to Big Government to get their way.

Republicans to the core.

daylightatheism,

https://grist.org/housing/arizona-rio-verde-foothills-water-wildcat-subdivisions/ Here's the update: Eventually, the Arizona legislature imposed a compromise. It ordered Scottsdale to allow RVF to use their water supply for one more year.

In the meantime, RVF is getting a new water pipeline built, at enormous cost to the town's residents, and will have a strict limit on future expansion. Turns out freedom isn't free!

The bigger problem is that the state didn't pass a comprehensive fix for the underlying problem. More developments are going to be built in places without an adequate water supply, and it's the people who move there who will end up paying the price.

withoutclass,
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@daylightatheism they're already building in a desert so I don't think it's a bit outlandish to build without available water.

samueljohnson,
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Wraithe,
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@daylightatheism @billyjoebowers Holy shit, Central Arizona is NOT the place you wanna play games with not having a solid water supply.
Good thing (for them) they tried it near a major population center otherwise there’d be another ghost town out there in the desert.

levampyre,
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@daylightatheism I like the idea of running an autonomous village or community. But how separated from the world of the living do you have to be to think you can run it in the desert without a water source?

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  • lhamilton1515,

    @daylightatheism Great article! Thanks!

    daylightatheism,

    @lhamilton1515 You're most welcome!

    If libertarianism is an interest of yours, you might also like this column on Stockton Rush: https://onlysky.media/alee/stockton-rush-and-the-randian-cult-of-the-lone-genius/

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