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Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko - Aug 21 In discussions of reducing car dependency, one often hears, "What about people in remote rural areas?" And my gut instinct is -- people shouldn't be living there in the first place. The solution is to give them generous grants to relocate among other humans. 4,916 8,029 Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko Aug 21 "But what if they like living in remote rural areas?" Sorry, you can't always get what you want. A lot of people would like to live in dense, transit-rich settings but can't -- either because they can't afford it or it simply doesn't exist where they are. 513 1,059 285 1,043 302 Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko Aug 21 And if this sounds harsh -- don't worry, it will never happen, because our governmental institutions are INSANELY biased in favor of rural areas. They'll be fine. I'm just a guy over here having an opinion. 368 182 366 Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko - Aug 21 "Isn't it mean to imply that rural people's lifestyle is bad and wrong?" As someone who lives in Chicago, all I can say to that is: cry me a river. 278 ↑ 290 ***

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Panuru

Aug 26, 2022 at 12:12PM EDT

Sure, relocate all the rural people to cities and we can get all the food we need from roof gardens /s

>hurr, why don't we just forcefully relocate all the rural people into cities?!?
I'll give you a couple of reasons
1. the most obvious reason is we have rights
2. moving a bunch of people into a cramped urban space where most of their skills would be useless and employment for them hard to come by is going to destroy the city's economy and cause the crime rate to skyrocket. if you thought living in Chicago was bad now, imagine what it would be like when a bunch of rednecks who know more about how to operate a gun than how to handle an espresso machine move in
3. on the subject of guns, we got a lot of them, and given reason 1. as well as the fact most people don't want to live like rats packed into a sardine can, we probably won't be very hesitant to use them when some bigwig starts ordering us around.
I swear, smug urbanites can be some of the most insufferable retards on God's good green earth.