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On the flip side, practically everything else about rural areas is subsidized. Most crops have price floors. Dairy is massively subsidized. Rural school distric
by sgarland 2y ago
On the flip side, practically everything else about rural areas is subsidized. Most crops have price floors. Dairy is massively subsidized. Rural school districts siphon funding from cities.
Much / all of this is arguably necessary for national security viz. food production, but I dislike when people in red states (not saying you’ve done this, just making a tangential point) make comments like, “let’s see how long the city lasts if we stop exporting food.” Uhhh how long do you think you’d last without practically every aspect of your life being subsidized?
We need both groups in the country, and we need to support each other as each needs, but part of that dynamic being healthy means acknowledging that we’re receiving help.
- jeffbee 2y agoYou guys are talking about a totally different "rural" than I was. Look, food in 2025 comes from gigantic horizontal factories and there is no way to avoid that. A food-producing region of California looks like [1]. An exclave of Libertarian weirdos LARPing as the Unabomber looks like [2]. It is the latter that is problematic in terms of provision of infrastructure. 1: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4301203,-122.0649005,3a,60y,53.5h,91.66t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1snJH-qIobm_32dWmM4mCCVA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-1.6601273576112447%26panoid%3DnJH-qIobm_32dWmM4mCCVA%26yaw%3D53.50012109953798!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIwNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4301203,-122.0649005,3a,60y,... 2: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3962909,-120.5056754,3a,75y,309.51h,89.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sWQD-tdmk4u7WwA55acbnuw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0.4617135601942266%26panoid%3DWQD-tdmk4u7WwA55acbnuw%26yaw%3D309.5052781444213!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIwNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3962909,-120.5056754,3a,75y,...