The current poor areas we have in America are still connected by market forces - jobs, social service providers, affordable housing, transit, road infrastructur

The current poor areas we have in America are still connected by market forces - jobs, social service providers, affordable housing, transit, road infrastructure, and others. Short of being subsistence farmers they cannot break too far off geographically or culturally because of all the tethers. BI lowers the bar from "people okay with sustenance farming" to "people okay with roughing it." In the extreme case the only tether needed is a dirt road or body of water suitable for a delivery vehicle to bring supplies[1]. You might ask who would be willing to break off from mainstream American culture so severely, and I think the easy answer is religions and cults. It could be this isn't as bad as I think - perhaps the cultural and religious development done in these communities would be valuable - but the point of this argument was to bring up something unexpected. [1] Coordinating the exchange of the BI for the supplies could be arranged in various ways. I think clever people will find loopholes and thus there isn't a practical way to force people to be present in "civilized" areas.