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> Of course it’s difficult to get internet there, so how will the millennials make it? Difficult to get medical care and water out there, so how will the Boome
by msla 8y ago
> Of course it’s difficult to get internet there, so how will the millennials make it?
Difficult to get medical care and water out there, so how will the Boomers make it?
- jjeaff 8y agoMedical care isn't usually that far. You would have to be very much in the middle of nowhere to be very far from a decent hospital with a medivac helipad. Rural water coops are very common and you can always just dig a well.
- asdff 8y agoCan you get a medivac to your appointment with the specialist?
- wnevets 8y agoIf it wasn't for the urban dwellers flyover usa's subsidizing water, electricity, mail delivery, telephone, etc they would have a very different about the free market.
- johnmaguire2013 8y agoCan you rephrase this comment? I couldn't follow it at all.
- ed312 8y agoI think the argument is something like: It is not profitable to provide the current level of service to rural areas. Because of the high productivity of urban areas, we can redistribute resources and improve rural public infrastructure.
- wnevets 8y agoBeyond that, it required interference of the free market by the federal government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoI sometimes think we should give the free market zealots what they want, as a punishment.
- adventured 8y agoThe obvious counter to that is: without flyover country, the cities would all starve to death (rapidly) and would not have had the energy necessary to have been built in the first place. To say nothing of that the population foundations of most US cities were seeded thanks to people moving from more rural, agricultural-heavy regions. Labor imported from the more rural areas directly helped to build the cities over time (and that process of rural to urban continues today, albeit slower). It has been a fair exchange in fact.