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In fact, it should be the opposite. You get way more economy of scales in providing a social safety net in dense areas than in sparse areas. Hospitals can cover more people, social workers can handle more cases, public transportation becomes cheaper, etc.

>>greisk+(OP)
Scale economy is too simplistic, that it is ignoring loads of social aspects of a realistic economy. Also population cannot be stacked together costlessly(scale economy within a limited landscape), just imagine this place, can you live there?

In fact, no single one highly and densely populated developed region can have a significant positive growth in population. There is much more than just scale of economy.

>>greisk+(OP)
Yeah, but having 2.1 kids in an apartment that’s 66m2 is annoying as hell. Especially when you work all the time.