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Originally Posted by Gordo
I don't really know why there are comments here like "no food without rural America" or similar. Of course some number of people are needed in rural America to grow food. The problem is that we need far fewer people in that line of work than we did in the past, but we use massive subsidies to keep more people there than the market would otherwise allocate. And even with those subsidies, there are still too many people in rural America, most not living a life that has anything to do with farming.
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I don't understand what we are saying or trying to say here though...
People shouldn't live in rural areas if they don't farm?
We shouldn't subsidize farming?
I mean, I really don't know what we're saying. I am at my mom's house right now in rural Arkansas. Its terrible. Trucks everywhere. Driving forever to get anywhere. Terrible built environment. Overall an environmentalist/urbanist nightmare. But, I dont even remember the original point of this thread... Do we want to ban them from the rural areas or are we just saying those dumb rednecks need *us* and we don't need them?