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Because the desert might have other things humans find useful, such as minerals.
by massysett 10y ago
Because the desert might have other things humans find useful, such as minerals.
- CydeWeys 10y ago99.9% of the people living in Phoenix and Las Vegas aren't there to mine minerals. This is just a complete non sequitur. For an actual example of towns that exist primarily to supply labor for resource extraction, look at the Canadian towns in the Alberta tar-sands region. They are much, much smaller.
- massysett 10y agoMany of them probably live in Phoenix in part because they like the climate--thus, there is something there that people find useful.