by PoS » Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:33 am
Dharma has a point, it seems if you can make an analogy of it you can base it all on Sid Meier's Civ games, in which all the top nations of the world spend more on luxuries at the expense of everything else. But the reality is that humans need and crave material goods to satisfy their happiness or else they will riot and the player loses control of that city. The only possible way out of this is neo luddism, but with that you will have to kill off 4/5th of the population since that kind of lifestyle would be unsustainable without technology.