>>13297696>there must be money in creating new waterfront property and turning deserts into arable landThere isn't money in creating new resources if you already own everything. If you own everything then creating new resources is just spending money to devalue your existing resources.
>We have the technology to shape the Earth so why don't we?>weyou don't have that technology, they have it.
>I almost feel like large feats of engineering like the Hoover dam could not happen in westetn society today for a lack of interested investors.Why install new generating capacity when you can just raise rates and do rolling blackouts instead and turn a bigger profit that way? If anyone complains you can always blame the global warming boogeyman
