Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever
by tsunamifury on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:47AM
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I pretty much think the expansion of drugs and crime due to boredom in rural America proves you wrong.
On top of the fact that many people are different than you (in fact the 100s of millions who live in cities) are not satisfied just playing video games all day long.
Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever
by humanrebar on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:17PM
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Or maybe logistics are so much better now that even illegal drugs are more accessible and cheaper than before.
Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever
by clock_tower on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:58PM
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That's probably true; but rural areas had alcohol problems before they had drug ones.
Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever
by humanrebar on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:03PM
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And they've always had poverty problems. The underlying point is that I'm sure we cannot boil down substance abuse problems to simple boredom.
Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever
by clock_tower on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:56PM
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Absolutely agreed there! The drug problem in the countryside is new -- really new, 20 years old at the most -- so it must be due to something that's happened really recently.
And alcohol can be coexisted with more easily than hard drugs can. "Meth: Not Even Once" is no exaggeration, but no one in the West except recovering alcoholics has that slogan for drinking.
I think the broad adoption of mobile gaming and the Millennial adoption rate on video games and the successor generation (whatever we are calling them now) basically being raised on them will break down the reliance on physically proximate entertainment for enough of a subset of these generations that businesses will have to adapt to remote more than they already are.
Plenty of people are going to be satisfied with what is available through technology, rather than just what they can commute to. This is on top of being able to do work remotely, its the value in being entertained remotely that truly separates them from the city centralization problem.