In truth, the most resource-efficient approach would undoubtedly have been to redistribute the original cities' resources. The fifty square meters per person that the Lord had mentioned before, with some left over, had been calculated based on the total existing housing area.
But that would only intensify the conflicts, and in the end, ordinary people would be the ones hurt most.
Social unrest was often accompanied by unemployment.
Thus, the Cosmic Federation simply decided to make a grand move in the end.
The old Cosmic Federation would remain untouched. Those willing to move to the supercities in the future would be allocated everything and become residents of the Cosmic Federation; those unwilling could remain as they were.
If some people were willing to swallow the sales pitch, then let them.
In fact, in order to publicize it properly, construction of the supercity ecosystem was being livestreamed simultaneously.
Yet even so, there was still a line of thought claiming that the Cosmic Federation was pulling a con—that it would first trick people into going there, then leave them with no say in the matter.
Even with the option of keeping everything they originally had, some people still thought that way. If they really carried out redistribution, huge problems would inevitably arise.
Still, such "wisdom" was ultimately confined to a minority. Times were progressing; the older generation was one thing, but young people today had clear heads.
Just one point: you keep saying it's for my own good, but I work 007, and before I'm even thirty, I'm already riddled with illnesses from exhaustion. Meanwhile, the Cosmic Federation's supercities give out housing the moment you arrive. That's not even counting the welfare benefits promised afterward. This alone would be worth ten years of struggle for me.
You say this is the enemy's