In visits to a number of developing countries I’ve made the same observation: driving from the wealthy, developed part where we were staying, out of the city an

In visits to a number of developing countries I’ve made the same observation: driving from the wealthy, developed part where we were staying, out of the city and into the countryside I’d notice that the very worst poverty seemed to be not in the (technically poorest) countryside where the old, rural life still went on, but on the edges of modernity. The people at the edges of the city had left behind the benefits of the traditional way of life — being self-sustainable, ok nutrition, good air etc. — and were really only experiencing the drawbacks of modern life; few of the benefits. It’s only a personal observation, but in my reading of history I wonder if the same pattern applies.