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This whole saga sounds like the start of an epic lesson in societal collapse. A city is struggling with decline, and despite great wealth being present, it is concentrated enough at the top for a handful of wealthy individuals to literally start their own city next door. Those people are so out of touch with the needs of normal people that the new city solves all the wrong problems.

It’s like the corrupt aristocrats in a crumbling Rome decided to start a new Rome next door, not realizing they were a big part of the problem all along.