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Originally Posted by Centropolis
yes, and partially, but also referring to what came after - infinite aquisitions/increasing geographic concentrations of wealth/corporate power.
st. louis is one thing, but places like central illinois, once bastions of industrial power AND white collar employment have been gutted like a fish. what good is a gleaming chicago loop when your states tax base relied on east st. louis, peoria (etc), the southside of chicago to keep from collapsing?
you wash out your foundation and you might as well be building on thin air.
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well, small town america might also see a resurgence. if the end is nigh scenarios pan out, people will flee cities for safer havens. i like living on the "frontier". its far away from east coast, big city goofery. i hope we can all hug it out, but if not, id rather have a few thousand miles between me and a madmax midwest....ill take to a boat and sail to alaska if things get real bad.