I mean, the guy's right that it's a bad thing all the young people are fleeing his town, but he'll never address the fact that it's core cause is capitalist compulsion which forces people to pursue economic resources or risk dying in the rain. Conservatives suck because they're the only other people wearing the they live glasses but they keep blaming the problems on Jews or some other minority group instead of reckoning with the actual causes of the woes in their life
It's only a "bad thing" because this guy doesn't have as many desperate young people, who he will still claim "have no skills" as an excuse to lower wages, to exploit as he wants.
There is NOTHING romantic about small town life, and it's a good thing when people escape some provincial shithole full of people like the dude being dunked on.
It’s a bad thing because it’s a direct outcome of the capitalist coercive forces that constitute wage slavery as a concept in the first place. These people have no choice but to leave their small towns and urbanize because there’s no economic future for them where they were born. Urbanization is coercion. This guy sucks and small towns are strongholds or local capital just like cities are the strongholds of global capital, but getting away from your chud relatives to experience eye watering alienation in the city isn’t romantic either.
getting away from your chud relatives to experience eye watering alienation in the city isn’t romantic either.
Sorry, but I really, really, really hate this take and find it to be incredibly reactionary at heart. Small towns have plenty of "eye watering alienation", especially when you have a small family or one that moved away! Urbanization is not really coercive either. There's no fucking jobs in cities! All the jobs are in far flung exurbs and suburbs, where it's easier to commute to from a small town than from an actual city.
The shitty parts of small town life are well documented, but there are good parts:
It's one of the easiest places to have a real sense of community.
Because there just aren't that many people, you get opportunities to dabble in stuff you'd probably be shut out of somewhere larger. This is especially good for kids -- you can try a bunch of activities and sports well into high school because you don't have to be super talented at 15 to avoid getting crowded out.
There are fewer police, which means less police harassment. This is also especially good for kids -- kids do reckless stuff, and this can be the difference between getting chewed out by your parents over it or getting arrested.
The low cost of living makes a middle class lifestyle more attainable than maybe anywhere else.
If you're paid well, that low cost of living can be the difference between being middle class (some financial security, but you still have to worry about bills or large purchases) and being rich (your financial security is near-guaranteed, you don't have to worry about bills, and large purchases are a lot easier, too).
There's less pretention.
Plenty of parts of small town life are awful, but it's silly to pretend that there's no reason anyone would want to live there.
i grew up in a small town but with cops everywhere because the town has a strong Klan presence
All 59 students of my high school graduating class either moved away, died, or are currently in horrifying poverty. About 30 of them moved away, the rest all died except a few (before the age of 40) due to health problems, death by cop, suicide, car crashes, or meth overdoses. I don't know how standard this experience is, but I felt like sharing it.
I can't disagree with the cost of living. My parents had jobs that would be solidly lower-middle class anywhere else, but we never particularly struggled financially. We owned an acre of land and were left alone. Were able to go on vacations and stuff.
I mean, the guy's right that it's a bad thing all the young people are fleeing his town, but he'll never address the fact that it's core cause is capitalist compulsion which forces people to pursue economic resources or risk dying in the rain. Conservatives suck because they're the only other people wearing the they live glasses but they keep blaming the problems on Jews or some other minority group instead of reckoning with the actual causes of the woes in their life
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guys a farmer & newspaper owner, he's worshipping himself
Love to be the owner of a newspaper and also against literacy, it's good business sense
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It's only a "bad thing" because this guy doesn't have as many desperate young people, who he will still claim "have no skills" as an excuse to lower wages, to exploit as he wants.
There is NOTHING romantic about small town life, and it's a good thing when people escape some provincial shithole full of people like the dude being dunked on.
It’s a bad thing because it’s a direct outcome of the capitalist coercive forces that constitute wage slavery as a concept in the first place. These people have no choice but to leave their small towns and urbanize because there’s no economic future for them where they were born. Urbanization is coercion. This guy sucks and small towns are strongholds or local capital just like cities are the strongholds of global capital, but getting away from your chud relatives to experience eye watering alienation in the city isn’t romantic either.
Sorry, but I really, really, really hate this take and find it to be incredibly reactionary at heart. Small towns have plenty of "eye watering alienation", especially when you have a small family or one that moved away! Urbanization is not really coercive either. There's no fucking jobs in cities! All the jobs are in far flung exurbs and suburbs, where it's easier to commute to from a small town than from an actual city.
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The shitty parts of small town life are well documented, but there are good parts:
Plenty of parts of small town life are awful, but it's silly to pretend that there's no reason anyone would want to live there.
i grew up in a small town but with cops everywhere because the town has a strong Klan presence
All 59 students of my high school graduating class either moved away, died, or are currently in horrifying poverty. About 30 of them moved away, the rest all died except a few (before the age of 40) due to health problems, death by cop, suicide, car crashes, or meth overdoses. I don't know how standard this experience is, but I felt like sharing it.
I can't disagree with the cost of living. My parents had jobs that would be solidly lower-middle class anywhere else, but we never particularly struggled financially. We owned an acre of land and were left alone. Were able to go on vacations and stuff.
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The American heartland is already collapsed no sane perosn would stay.
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