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- 0:00A player created the perfect city in
- 0:02SimCity 3000, but everyone died at age
- 0:0450. His goal was to maintain the city
- 0:07at its maximum population of 6 million
- 0:09people as efficiently as possible.
- 0:11Before building it, he spent about 4
- 0:13years using math and graph paper to
- 0:15calculate the layout. He then
- 0:17eliminated roads, schools, and
- 0:19hospitals to save space and better
- 0:20control the city. Traffic was managed
- 0:22solely through the subway. Rebellion
- 0:25was controlled with overwhelming police
- 0:27power, and to eliminate elderly care
- 0:29costs, he manipulated health so
- 0:31residents died at exactly 50. The city
- 0:34had no crime or unemployment and
- 0:36remained stable for tens of thousands
- 0:38of years, but residents only worked,
- 0:40died, and were replaced like parts of a
- 0:42machine. The strangest thing is that
- 0:44this dystopian city was later
- 0:46recognized as a work of art by a New
- 0:48York museum.
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