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Way to completely miss the anecdotal point about rural cultural decay. You can point to a chart showing rising wage growth all day, but if it's happening at the
by netbioserror 2y ago
Way to completely miss the anecdotal point about rural cultural decay. You can point to a chart showing rising wage growth all day, but if it's happening at the expense of long-lived communities being hollowed out, you're effectively celebrating peoples' destitution.
It is incredible how Internet armchair technocrats will attempt to reduce human existence to a few equations and wonder why broader populations despise the Ivory Tower.
- rangestransform 2y agoRural existence is already subsidized by urban dwellers, I dunno what more they expect
- datavirtue 2y agoI think it's the other way around.
- vagrantJin 2y agoPlease elaborate further on what you mean by the phrasing of "Rural existence is already subsidized...." I'm uncertain if I missed the sarcasm or perhaps more likely my lack of comprehension.
- rangestransform 2y agohttps://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-rural-america-needs-cities/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-rural-america-needs-c... It’s not sarcasm, it’s reality
- netbioserror 2y ago[flagged]
- berniedurfee 2y agoWow, I’ve never heard this sort of urban elitism before! Is it common?