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An even more important point is that paying existing debt is a fixed cost. Most governments (at all levels and almost everywhere - blue state municipalities in the US are just particularly bad) have marginally-payable debt (if you include implicit debt from underfunded pension liabilities, which you should) and adding a net zero-contribution new resident improves their finances by reducing debt per capita. This is a Ponzi process (the population needs to grow exponentially to keep the government solvent) but one that can be kept going for longer than a human lifetime, so a growing city is more sustainable than most phenomena that exist nowadays.
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