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“SimCity’s inspiration was rightwing cybernetics: “New migrants…caused overcrowding & underemployment, dampening economic vitality, & sending the city into a death spiral of blight and decay;” the urban poor are modeled as parasites.
https://t.co/cF16BzRlx3”

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