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Outside of cities, the main ways to make a living is using the natural resources. Logging, mining, farming etc. Laws are made by city people, who think of work
by BurningFrog 2y ago
Outside of cities, the main ways to make a living is using the natural resources. Logging, mining, farming etc.
Laws are made by city people, who think of work as something you do sitting by a desk. They see the countryside as a nature reserve to keep beautiful for their vacation trips. So they ban most commercial use of natural resources.
This is part of what makes rural communities poor and desperate societies, surrounded my massive wealth that they "own", but are not allowed to prosper from.
- lantry 2y agoyes, poor people prosper when international megacorps pay them minimum wage to chop down all their trees. the corp keeps all the profit, and moves on when the trees are gone, and usually leaves a bunch of pollution behind. That's why old mining towns in the appalachians are so prosperous!
- MSFT_Edging 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FuTiGdN-i8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FuTiGdN-i8 Relevant tune
- akira2501 2y ago> and moves on when the trees are gone Is that how the timber industry works?
- cscurmudgeon 2y agoI think you are unintentionally proving their point. We tightened regulations and have just exported pollution to dictatorships (e.g., CCP). If city folks just do local bans without similar import bans, what is the point? > yes, poor people prosper when international megacorps pay them minimum wage to chop down all their trees Or, why not let the poor people decide for themselves? In your story, the only illegal thing the megacorp did was pollution. Why didn't existing laws address that?
- BurningFrog 2y agoConfident assertions in this post: - Loggers were only paid minimum wage. - International megacorps controlled the whole American logging business. - Every single trees were chopped down, without any replanting. Because... international megacorps hate future profits? - Being international (non American), the megacorps made sure to leave pollution behind. - Old Appalachian mining towns were also ravaged by the same internationalist forces.
- Loughla 2y agoI don't know why you're getting down voted because you're correct. I'm in flyover country, in a state with few "cities" and yet the laws reflect the values of a city dweller who uses the countryside as a stop off vacation. We're dying in the rural part of this country, the towns, the people, all of it. And the arguments that I constantly see are - well just move to a city.
- JeremyNT 2y agoAs a counter point, in Western NC the National Forests are major tourist destinations, and many rural towns with no other industry to speak of are able to thrive because people come from all over to enjoy them. These towns are filled with businesses catering to tourists and there are plenty of jobs doing so. Logging isn't the only way for a community to profit from a forest, conservation can do this too.
- BurningFrog 2y agoThis is true and worth mentioning. Much of the tourism industry won't work with logging and mining soiling the pristine landscape. A negative angle is that they used to be able to live off the land with hard work. Then the city people banned that, and now they're reduced to serving those city people on their nice vacations.
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoThe entire Pacific Northwest is forrest. People aren't traveling hundred of miles to see a forest just like the one back home.