The beyond is true. Think of detroit for example. 1.8M people living there at peak. Homes apartments whatever. Until the riots and the pop is down to what 650k? Idk anymore nor care but that also includes people who immigrated here after shtf there. But let's say 1,000,000 people were displaced during the white flight. At 5 people per dwelling average thats 200,000 dwellings. 200,000 that need to be rebuilt. So you get Dearborn expansion, canton, ann arbor, livonia, Belleville, troy all these towns had to be built from basically farms or added too. At the average cost of these homes lets just say $150,000 (inflation to today's $) that's $30,000,000,000. >30B<. Now factor in the cost on 30 year mortgage interest rates since these homes are just now being passed down since boomers are starting to die. That's easily $65B with old higher interest rates stolen from us... Now count infrastructure, electric, water pipes, roads... Your head starts to spin when all the numbers get added. All the cities, all the lost productivity. Numbers are why we are the way we are.