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> Basically unless you grow food the city folks would be economically better off if you didn't exist. "Basically, if we didn't need to eat, we'd be better off
by gameman144 4y ago
> Basically unless you grow food the city folks would be economically better off if you didn't exist.
"Basically, if we didn't need to eat, we'd be better off of our digestive system didn't exist."
What a hilariously strange world view. There are comparative advantages for both urban and rural areas, and both are vitally important.
Urban areas optimize for concentration of labor. Rural areas optimize for land-and-resource-dependent operations.
You won't build a successful large scale R&D lab in a small farm town, but you also won't build a successful mining operation in downtown LA.
(Also as an addendum, there are so many industries dependent on land and resources other than just agriculture).
- michaelmrose 4y agoIf you want to be mercenary about it farms already require only a tiny fraction of the rural population to run and will in the future require even fewer. We need the land. Virtually all of the folks not so much.
- gameman144 4y agoThis is absolutely true, and the required subsidies for those places with mass exoduses will presumably drop over time (though will like increase per remaining person for those few necessary remaining people).