Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by TulliusCicero 1526 days ago
Uhh no, who was arguing that you can have cities without anyone in rural areas? This just looks like another ridiculous straw man.
1 comments
bombcar 1525 days ago
> cities are an inevitable migration towards efficiency and that rural life is increasingly an unsustainable welfare state

Was what the whole thread started with.

link
TulliusCicero 1525 days ago
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.

link