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agriculture is the ultrawealthy though? i dont need to subsidize the very-rich

fishing isndone off the coast, and the fishing boats can land in town or in a city for processing. the ships leave seattle, then go out to alaska to catch fish, thrn come back to seattle with frozen fish

oil, gas, uranium, etc make money hand over fist and can bring people in and out of the mines on a 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off schedule. they dont need a rural village beside

i think the real reason is that local rich people in rural areas are far too powerful, and federal resources ensure that the people that live in rural areas are too wildly oppressed by the local nobility. we hope that one day the nobles will be overthrown and there will be more proper righta and freedoms out in the middle of nowhere