Trump on Wednesday signed a five-page memo ordering all federal agencies to send reports in 14 days to the White House Office of Management and Budget that detail funds that can be redirected.
Dictator dipshit is angling for even more red meat for his base, and with the electoral college it might work.
Cities couldn't exist without the subjugation of the countryside. That means farm workers, miners, loggers, rig pigs, etc. If they all controlled the means of production, cities would be much smaller and much more expensive.
Exactly. There's a real urban elitism that gets thrown around whenever this topic comes up. Where would we urban folk get our food if the cities and countryside cut off from each other? Rooftop gardens? That solein shit from Finland?
Although there's a larger issue of economics of scale - cities are cheaper per-capita, particular for high capacity infrastructure like rail or office centers or stadiums - it's worth noting how much wealth ends up being extracted from the agriculture/logging/mining/manufacturing centers and booked as finance or legal or tech profits.
You can dig $0.02 of natural gas out of the ground in Midland, TX and sell it for $2.00 on a Dallas trading floor. But who is generating the value?
Cities couldn't exist without the subjugation of the countryside. That means farm workers, miners, loggers, rig pigs, etc. If they all controlled the means of production, cities would be much smaller and much more expensive.
Exactly. There's a real urban elitism that gets thrown around whenever this topic comes up. Where would we urban folk get our food if the cities and countryside cut off from each other? Rooftop gardens? That solein shit from Finland?
This guy reads theory.
Although there's a larger issue of economics of scale - cities are cheaper per-capita, particular for high capacity infrastructure like rail or office centers or stadiums - it's worth noting how much wealth ends up being extracted from the agriculture/logging/mining/manufacturing centers and booked as finance or legal or tech profits.
You can dig $0.02 of natural gas out of the ground in Midland, TX and sell it for $2.00 on a Dallas trading floor. But who is generating the value?