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Your comment is ignorant and myopic. The area I come from has switched from being hugely important to completely worthless multiple times over the past few cent
by olddustytrail 3y ago
Your comment is ignorant and myopic. The area I come from has switched from being hugely important to completely worthless multiple times over the past few centuries.
Even then, being profitable is not the same as being useful to society.
- zeroCalories 3y agoSo we should be subsidizing every small town in the hopes that maybe some day they begin contributing back to society? Can I go into the mountains and demand a sewage line and hospital be built next to me?
- pauldenton 3y agoWe could penalize big cities for the negative externalities they cause on surrounding cities.
- zeroCalories 3y agoSeems fair. What externalities?
- fkyoureadthedoc 3y agoNo, you can make bad faith arguments and get ignored though.
- zeroCalories 3y agoI really want to ignore small towns, so maybe we can compromise!
- anigbrowl 3y agoDid you grow up in one and not enjoy it? You seem extremely passionate about this issue. I can kind of relate, but although I left a small town in favor of city life, I don't think it's necessarily the ideal, or that the richness and complexity of cities makes smaller scales redundant.