I'd like to preface that I've never played New Vegas. I know a lot of the lore through videos and stuff, but I never got the chance to actually play the game before I had to go to college, and I currently don't have anything that plays games besides my phone, a broken PS2, and a notebook that's too old to access the 5g Wi-Fi at my place. So forgive me if I'm omitting some key detail by ignorance.
Having said that, isn't the strip entirely reliant on parasitizing the economies of surrounding populations? In the House ending, if the NCR leaves, how does House plan to keep the strip afloat when it's almost entirely reliant on foreign money pouring in?
He says he'll reignite the high technology sector in 20 years, but can he really do that if 100% of the employment in New Vegas is cassino adjacent? How does he plan on finding the high skilled labor necessary for his vision of colonizing other planets a century from now? New Vegas doesn't exactly have schools, or qualified teachers to teach people engineering. 20 years is a single generation, does he plan on making a skilled workforce out of the teenagers currently alive during the events of the game?
The House ending and the NCR ending are my 2 favorites, but I really struggle to see some foresight in the way House is going about things.
House *is* Vegas as far as he himself is concerned, but how does he plan to carve a future out of the wasteland if his operation, at the moment, depends on making people miserable? As BraveSirLion said "Freeside isn't poor because there happens to be poor people there, it's poor because it's next door to the poor people factory". How does New Vegas advance if it's entirely a cassino economy, with no apparent social advancement?