Aware of mild overlap with 334, I think it's a different enough premise though.
TITLE:
Up His
VALIDITY:
Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:
Annoyed with a rival's refusal to sell an apartment building to him, real estate developer Richard Josephson instead purchased a thin strip of land directly in front of the building. He then constructed a twelve-storey "spite house" that is thirty metres wide but only one-and-a-half metres deep.
OPTION 1
"That insane construction has blocked the view from my luxury apartments, and made it so that residents have to sidle sideways to reach their front door," complains Loman Zarner, the owner of the newly-obstructed original building. "It should be torn down, for reasons of negative easement, and future planning permission applications should take into account the right to views and light for existing buildings."
OUTCOME:
nosy neighbours are overjoyed that new laws limit the height of garden fences
OPTION 2
"Waaa waaa, little baby is having a cry, ha ha ha," mocks Josephson, stepping between you and Zarner, and opening an umbrella to block him from the conversation. "The freedom of a private individual to build as he or she choose on their own property, that's a cornerstone of true capitalism. He doesn't like it, he can buy that land from me. Though prices just went up, up, and up again, ha ha!"
OUTCOME:
natural sunlight never reaches street level in @@CAPITAL@@
OPTION 3
"Actually, the essence of capitalism is that money is power," points out Al Mualim, an older man from the mountains. "Let anything be planning permitted, and nothing be forbidden. But let there be a cost -- administrative fees proportional to the height of the building, and to offset externalities, whether they be aesthetic, environmental, or relating to inconvenience. This should be the creed of government." He takes a bite from a golden-looking apple, and smiles enigmatically.
OUTCOME:
there's always a price to be paid for rising up
