Luís M. A. Bettencourt

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

I live in Chicago partly because of my job, but I do like to live in a city because I like sometimes to go out.

I like to walk in the city.

I like to see people.

I like to get a cup of coffee.

I like to see the news.

I like a certain diversity around me.

I like the arts.

So, you know, and therefore it's very hard for me to not live in a big city.

But having said that, it's kind of a bunch of little things and it's not really a hard cost benefit analysis.

And some of it often is aspirational.

It's about the things that could happen here that will not happen in a small town, right?

You know, that I can learn something.

My job may improve or, you know, I can meet someone or I can...

you know, develop my career, whatever, you know, people at different stages of life have different priorities.

But that's kind of very interesting.

So I think what you see is that, for example, we tested this with data of many kinds, and we're investigating this better just to have better answers.

But for example, if you look at just people's expenditures versus what they make in terms of salaries, there's some data on this, wages and so on.

Basically, larger cities are more expensive, but also people earn more.

So it's basically you break even, you just spend more money, make more money kind of thing.

So it's not that, right?

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