[bombcar]

The argument is you can’t have cities without rural areas supplying what they need.

To disprove that you need cities that are self-sufficient.

Subsidies don’t matter in that question.

[TulliusCicero]

Uhh no, who was arguing that you can have cities without anyone in rural areas? This just looks like another ridiculous straw man.

[bombcar]

> cities are an inevitable migration towards efficiency and that rural life is increasingly an unsustainable welfare state

Was what the whole thread started with.

[TulliusCicero]

That says nothing about there being nobody in rural areas, just fewer people, and it being an unsustainable welfare state obviously refers to the current subsidies.

So yeah, it was a straw man on your part.