Oddbean new post about login | logout note this is a graphic that progressives will use to say "see cities are important", but as you can see it in reality is just another graphic showing "yeah cities steal all the wealth" nitter.poast.org/SaysSimulation/status/1708551237577199726#m https://i.poastcdn.org/0ea2182397be995f8618209067bca60c0fd3fb04b4e75611fde473ba16fc8b5f.png
Glad other people are starting to figure this shit out. Ironically, it was their own fucking fault for trying to demoralize country sides with 'MUH GDP' bullshit. Cities are worthless shitholes full of debt, misery, miscegenation, and useless eaters.
@Sick Burn, Bro Cities have always been important. The US was healthier when the wealth was more spread out. Small and mid-sized cities used to play a big role in the US economy. For trade, manufacturing, even design/innovation and white collar occupations, smaller cities played a big role. The US economy was more diverse. Today, we’re very reliant on a few ‘industries’ which aren’t really productive (tech, finance, health, government), which produce the majority of our GDP and are concentrated in a few cities. If one of these failed the others would likely go too. The barrenness of huge swaths of what used to be an amazingly productive country, even back to the 19th century, isn’t something to brag about.
Nebraska farmers living high on the teat of society, milling about Javascript devs in San Francisco carrying America on their shoulders, Atlas style
