Fools and their money and all that.
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They ran out of other peoples’ money...................as usual............
Final sentence:
“The original people working there either got frustrated and left, or stayed there and got older and settled into their cozy, Soleri-designed apartments to live a pleasant, hippy-dream life,” James McGirk, a former attendee of an Arcosanti workshop, told Wired.
It is a fine idea if the group can get it built and people will choose to live there and the government does not subsidize anything. I suspect none of the ifs are realistic assumptions, though.