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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I used to live one county over from Nowata, Oklahoma, which became infamous for being one of the first towns that was destroyed by Wal-Mart. They moved a shopping center into the area, which wiped out all of the mainstreet businesses - but after a decade they decided that there wasn't enough of a consumer market to support the store - so they closed up and left the economy in complete ruins. It took another decade before businesses came back to mainstreet, but by then the town was already half depopulated. rural depopulation's been a thing for a couple generations now
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:This isn't the inevitable march of progress towards urban concentration, it's an unemployment crisis. yeah because agricultural jobs have largely been mechanized over the past half century, and the ones that aren't are mostly poo poo handled by migrant workers or prisoners dying malls has gently caress all to do with why people are leaving the sticks
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Maybe those century long processes aren't relevant to what's happening in the present, is my point. they absolutely are the one thing that made living in rural areas possible for working people i.e. work has largely disappeared
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hey look at that, the employment rate of prime working age men in rural areas is significantly lower than everywhere else, and unemployment among the same cohort has risen in cities because that's where those people are moving how bout dem apples
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jarofpiss posted:how will i go buy a cat in the hat hat and a pair of sunglasses with alien shaped lenses if spencer's gifts goes away? didn't spencer's go out of business like ten years ago? oh wait i'm thinking of gadzooks
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