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Most small towns where remote workers might settle are not driven by agriculture. Agriculture matters, but we don't live in an economy where everything outside

Most small towns where remote workers might settle are not driven by agriculture. Agriculture matters, but we don't live in an economy where everything outside of metro areas is just farms as far as the eye can see.

carlosjobim 4y ago
I'm not saying it's only agriculture, but rural areas give much more to urban areas than they receive back, evident by the massive waste and corruption within the cities and the throngs of people being sustained in the cities without producing anything of value or anything at all. In the past you could certainly say that urban areas give back just as much or even more, when factories where concentrated in cities. Today the factories are not only in the cities.
- ramphastidae 4y ago
  That’s not evident at all, just your biases talking LOUD.
  - carlosjobim 4y ago
    Materially it is a fact that urban areas need rural areas to survive, while rural areas needs don't need the urban areas. The country side can be self sufficient, the city can never be. Thousands of trucks deliver excess goods from the country side to the city every day. Saying that it is the city that supports the country side is fancy accounting.
- bluGill 4y ago
  In poor 'African' farming communities this is true. In any even slightly developed country the farms are not self sufficient: they focus on a cash crop and go to town to buy things that they don't grow. Sure any rural farm could be self sufficient, but division of labor makes them far more efficient - at the expensive of needing the city to provide all the logistics that make it possible for them to get things they don't or can't grow (can't meaning something that doesn't grow in their climate, while don't means they could grow it but they do not).
- kibwen 4y ago
  > evident by the massive waste and corruption within the cities and the throngs of people being sustained in the cities without producing anything of value or anything at all. Where on earth did you get this impression? I have lived in both small rural towns and large cities, and this is hogwash.
mydriasis 4y ago
This is strikingly false in the state of Ohio. If you drive outside of the cities, you will literally see farms everywhere. As far as you can see.

carlosjobim 4y ago

I'm not saying it's only agriculture, but rural areas give much more to urban areas than they receive back, evident by the massive waste and corruption within the cities and the throngs of people being sustained in the cities without producing anything of value or anything at all. In the past you could certainly say that urban areas give back just as much or even more, when factories where concentrated in cities. Today the factories are not only in the cities.

ramphastidae 4y ago
That’s not evident at all, just your biases talking LOUD.
- carlosjobim 4y ago
  Materially it is a fact that urban areas need rural areas to survive, while rural areas needs don't need the urban areas. The country side can be self sufficient, the city can never be. Thousands of trucks deliver excess goods from the country side to the city every day. Saying that it is the city that supports the country side is fancy accounting.
bluGill 4y ago
In poor 'African' farming communities this is true. In any even slightly developed country the farms are not self sufficient: they focus on a cash crop and go to town to buy things that they don't grow. Sure any rural farm could be self sufficient, but division of labor makes them far more efficient - at the expensive of needing the city to provide all the logistics that make it possible for them to get things they don't or can't grow (can't meaning something that doesn't grow in their climate, while don't means they could grow it but they do not).
kibwen 4y ago
> evident by the massive waste and corruption within the cities and the throngs of people being sustained in the cities without producing anything of value or anything at all. Where on earth did you get this impression? I have lived in both small rural towns and large cities, and this is hogwash.

mydriasis 4y ago

This is strikingly false in the state of Ohio. If you drive outside of the cities, you will literally see farms everywhere. As far as you can see.