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> Thankfully the low density also means you can afford to pay your bills doing jobs like that. Financial margins in rural areas have been decreasing over the l
by WkndTriathlete 5y ago
> Thankfully the low density also means you can afford to pay your bills doing jobs like that.
Financial margins in rural areas have been decreasing over the last 100 years as corporations take over farms and people move to urban areas for more opportunities. There's not a lot of opportunity left in rural America.
- betwixthewires 5y agoNot a lot of opportunity for what? Cities are economic machines. Everything is abstracted. There are overarching systems to everything. And it has to be that way, that's both the draw and the solution to the density. Rural areas are entirely interpersonal relationships. People do business with one another. You have to do something within your local economy to get along. So there's not a lot of opportunity to go work for the big chemical factory that used to support your entire company town. But there's plenty of opportunity to live a simple life, if that's what you want. The bug difference is that you have to do things for the people you directly interact with to get paid, it's much smaller scale. It's less about employment and more about interpersonal business.