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> rural people live an unsustainable lifestyle that demands subsidization by city dwellers I see this idea in a lot of places but don't understand it. You coul
by prottog 3y ago
> rural people live an unsustainable lifestyle that demands subsidization by city dwellers
I see this idea in a lot of places but don't understand it. You could equally fairly say that city dwellers live an unsustainable lifestyle that demands subsidization by farmers in Kansas or oil drillers in North Dakota.
- midoridensha 3y agoYou have trouble understanding this? Try this: can 90% of the population live in cities, supported by food and oil produced by the other 10%? The answer is yes. Now, can 90% of the population live with the farmers and oil workers (in a very rural lifestyle) and still yield the level of civilization and economic development we have now? The answer is no. Without cities, there's no modern economy: just look at any place that's still agrarian, or was in the recent past. Or even the US during its civil war (the agrarian, rural South had no chance against the industrialized North).