[snackbugs]

The people who lived in towns which thrived long before the economy failed them don't need to justify their existence in economic terms. The question you should be asking is whether or not this economy has any benefit to those people.

What an absolutely inhuman comment this is.

[ubercore]

I don't know the original intentions but I didn't read it that way. Seemed more like a question of the premise that a town _needs_ to be a tech hub to survive, which is sort of half implied by the article.

[tryptophan]

>economy failed them

Its everyone else fault that nobody wanted to buy the crap their local industries made?

[snackbugs]

You're better off just not posting if the first infantile misfiring of your brain is what you decide is fit to type into the comment box.