New capitals, impossible houses, and ghost towns

The political pact to create new capitals promises to modernize the country, but it clashes with two realities: affordable housing is a myth for young people and rural areas are emptying at an alarming rate. Allocating funds to urban megaprojects while ignoring these problems seems more like an electoral gesture than a real solution.

Photorealistic cinematic scene: massive futuristic capital city skyline under construction with towering cranes and glass skyscrapers, foreground shows a young couple holding blueprints for a tiny affordable house being crushed by a giant bulldozer labeled megaproject, background reveals abandoned rural village with crumbling stone houses and empty roads stretching into dust, dramatic contrast between gleaming new towers and decaying ghost town, technical engineering visualization with construction equipment, architectural renderings, soil erosion patterns, cracked foundations, photorealistic lighting, hyper-detailed textures, wide-angle lens capturing inequality

Smart cities without inhabitants: the technological mirage 🏙️

The planning of these new capitals bets on smart infrastructure, 5G networks, and sustainable buildings. However, no sensor or algorithm will solve the lack of buyers if land prices remain sky-high. Linking each yen invested to regional revitalization plans and rent caps would be more effective than filling an empty city with touch screens.

The master plan: building another city that no one can afford 💸

The strategy is brilliant: spending public money on glass skyscrapers while in the villages, supermarkets close and neighbors can be counted on one hand. Thus, young people can choose between an impossible mortgage in the new capital or inheriting their grandfather's house in a town where the youngest neighbor is 80 years old. Quite a success.