Increasing the efficiency for the consumers appears to be generally a good. The bad is that the consumers end up stranded in areas which are unsustainable sate

Increasing the efficiency for the consumers appears to be generally a good. The bad is that the consumers end up stranded in areas which are unsustainable satellites that are no longer fit in a more globalized, technically advanced, specialist filled world. The fact that these small towns continue to exist, rather than being bought up and shutdown in an orderly consolidation process, is a failure of our society to require planning and execution at scale.