[extropy-chat] Fill it in a pave it over

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Dan Clemmensen <dgc at cox.net> wrote:
> Yes this approach would require writing off the
> existing 
> infrastructure in most of New Orleans (roads, sewers, utilities.) But
> it's often cheaper to start from scratch than it is to repair old 
> infrastructure.

Assuming you could buy out the entire city, or most of it.  While the
government may have the legal right to force the sales (see recent
eminent domain cases), even the US federal government might have a hard
time coming up with that much money (without giving many people so
little that it could credibly be called far below fair value/market
price).