Ah, so we should abandon capital investment and revert to nomadic lifestyles, where swarms of people wander the landscape looking for work. They should be inve

Ah, so we should abandon capital investment and revert to nomadic lifestyles, where swarms of people wander the landscape looking for work. They should be investing in their own caravan carts, rather than paying $300/month for just enough floor to throw down a mattress? Like Roma (Gypsy), Irish Travelers, or hoboes? Yes, those are all cultures valued well by the landowner class. You can't solve a regional problem by depopulating the region. You'll just end up with the same problems in the neighboring region. And in the metaphor, the fish are gone. As in extinct. Coal mining is dead. Natural gas extraction and green energy killed it. People still working in the industry are the isopods picking over the carcasses. Eventually, they will get down to the bones, and they too will have to find something else to eat.