"I expect I can survive for at least another month at that level, possibly longer.  But it isn't that hard to build larger houses for people, even ones who are trying to live in the central City.  You just make taller buildings instead of tinier apartments?  It doesn't even imply denser transportation per unit area?  We don't settle for living standards as low as what your Civilization thinks is okay for its wealthy psions.  I think you're probably visualizing something horrible and false about Quiet Cities, and once people can actually see what those are like, I will be very shocked if we do not have hundreds of millions of Earth people applying to rest there from their Earth situations."

"I expect I can survive for at least another month at that level, possibly longer.  But it isn't that hard to build larger houses for people, even ones who are trying to live in the central City.  You just make taller buildings instead of tinier apartments?  Which doesn't even imply denser transportation per unit area?  We don't settle for living standards as low as what your Civilization thinks is okay for its wealthy psions.  I think you're probably visualizing something horrible and false about Quiet Cities, and once people can actually see what those are like, I will be very shocked if we do not have hundreds of millions of Earth people applying to rest there from their Earth situations."

"I expect I can survive for at least another month at that level, possibly longer.  But it isn't that hard to build larger houses for people, even ones who are trying to live in the central City.  You just make taller buildings instead of tinier apartments?  Which doesn't even imply denser transportation per unit area?  We don't settle for living standards as low as what your Civilization thinks is okay for its wealthy psions, we keep poking at the problem until we figure out how to do better than that situation instead of tolerating it.  I think you're probably visualizing something horrible and false about Quiet Cities, and once people can actually see what those are like, I will be very shocked if we do not have hundreds of millions of Earth people applying to rest there from their Earth situations."

"I expect I can survive for at least another month at that level, possibly longer.  But it isn't that hard to build larger houses for people, even ones who are trying to live in the central City.  You just make taller buildings instead of tinier apartments?  Which doesn't even imply denser transportation per unit area?  We don't settle for living standards as low as what your Civilization thinks is okay for its wealthy psions; we keep poking at bad equilibria until we figure out how to do better, instead of putting up with them.  I think you're probably visualizing something horrible and false about Quiet Cities, and once people can actually see what those are like, I will be very shocked if we do not have hundreds of millions of Earth people applying to rest there from their awful-equilibrium Earth situations."

"I expect I can survive for at least another month at that level, possibly longer.  But it isn't that hard to build larger houses for people, even ones who are trying to live in the central City.  You just make taller buildings instead of tinier apartments?  Which doesn't even imply denser transportation per unit area?  We don't settle for living standards as low as what your Civilization thinks is okay for its wealthy psions; we keep poking at bad equilibria until we figure out how to do better, instead of putting up with them.  I think you're probably visualizing something horrible and false about Quiet Cities, and once people can actually see what those are like, I will be very shocked if we do not have hundreds of millions of Earth people applying to rest there from their awful-equilibrium Earth situations."