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by api_or_ipa
750 days ago
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Wait, you’re missing the important linkage. Urbanization facilitates specialization only because it produces excess productivity. Growth it’s very self produces inequality when the benefits of increased productivity are not evenly distributed. This is not a fault of urbanization, and certainly a poor reason to oppose urbanization. |
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Logically I agree that this is a "distribution" or "social" problem, not solely "the fault" of urbanization (that is, the "correct" social policies ought to be able to mitigate the natural downsides).
Unfortunately, however, we have thousands of years of data in which no society has managed to discover what these correct policies are (or at the very least, they've been unable to be deployed at scale). This observation gives me some pause and causes me to re-evaluate some of my prior assumptions.
A poor reason to oppose urbanization, perhaps. But not a poor reason to oppose kneejerk urbanization without critical thought (a prevailing trend as of late).
Whatever the case, this force is a powerful one and should not be casually dismissed, even by those who believe workable solutions are (finally) imminent.