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As a correction officer, fifteen-minute cities sound like mini-prisons to me. "Everything you'll need are there," but how will they know what I "Need!"

I need freedom, I need self-determination, I have the right to travel and see people across town, across the country.

The WEF are NAZI survivors that escaped to Belgium and are trying to create a 4th Reich.

This will not work for two reasons:

1) You don't have enough doctors, grocery stores, mom-and-pop stores, etc, to make this work.

2) Nobody wants to eat bugs and corn forever.

By the way, people are not inmates or prisoners in jail. They may be NPCs, but they deserve the right to figure out what they want.

I live in a small town of 3,000 people, and we don't even have a grocery store or sit-down restaurants. All we have is a Sonic takeout.

It would be easier to entice people to move out of the cities and re-work the smaller towns and villages to create living spaces.

To make cities like Dallas and Forth Worth a 15-minute city, you'd have to destroy neighborhoods and build more markets.

The industrialization of the world created this problem. Before cities became the places to be, people lived in rural areas, and the impact on Nature was minimal. People grew the food they needed and traded among themselves for other needs. But now, those are done by multi-national corps.

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