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The countryside also can't sustain itself at its current standard of living without goods and services produced in cities.

The whole point of infrastructure is that it benefits society as a whole. This is just as true of city infrastructure as it is infrastructure in the countryside.

(Not to mention there's a whole lot of countryside that doesn't produce food...or much of anything, really, other than a place for misanthropic people to retire to.)




"The countryside also can't sustain itself at its current standard of living without goods and services produced in cities."

I think it is possible you underestimate how much manufacturing happens outside urban areas.

Your argument about 'how we need each other' has a point.

Does that mean I get to vote on how you run your trains, down there in Big City, USA?




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