> Cities are ancient relics of a time when human beings had to have their atoms in the presence of each other to communicate rapidly.
You're forgetting the transfer of material possessions and wealth, safety, and employment. It's great that you've found a way to work remote, but that's the not the reality for the majority of people. I also wonder whether 5 million people living in less than a thousand square kilometers is more or less wasteful than 5 million spread out over a billion square kilometers. You'd have to spend a lot more to transfer all the goods everywhere, as well as moving people around.
You're forgetting the transfer of material possessions and wealth, safety, and employment. It's great that you've found a way to work remote, but that's the not the reality for the majority of people. I also wonder whether 5 million people living in less than a thousand square kilometers is more or less wasteful than 5 million spread out over a billion square kilometers. You'd have to spend a lot more to transfer all the goods everywhere, as well as moving people around.