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by RelativeDelta 1008 days ago
Detroit is a great example and also a stark warning.

Detroit never learned, and still hasn't learnt, it's lesson.

You cannot repair a broken population after a doom loop. Keeping it on life support merely entrenches dependance and makes it even harder to undo the damage even generations down the line.

Doom loops only end when the population that doomed the area consumes itself, if they are prevented from doing so though programs, nothing improves.