Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save the Monarchy

Re:Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save... by mythrwy on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:00AM (#24855313)

I'm not sure that's entirely true. What wealth exactly is exported from urban centers to small towns and rural communities? Tax revenue? Ya likely that.

Otherwise I'd argue the reverse. Banking, media, software etc. seem to export wealth from smaller communities back to urban centers. In this regard large urban centers can be regarded something as absentee landlords receiving grapes and oil and Amish furniture and exporting spreadsheets and compliance audits.

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Re:Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save... by watwut on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:28AM (#24855417)

Absentee landlords were issues, because they had actual ruling power over the land. Urban centers dont have decision power over rural areas.

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Re:Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save... by vkou on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:15AM (#24855891)

Banking, media, and software extracts wealth just as efficiently from city-dwellers.

The difference is that city-dwellers are more economically productive (For various reasons, some of which are systemic), and, after paying for all those things, are left with a surplus at the end of the year.

Not to mention that the cost of supplying more mundane, necessary-for-life goods to rural areas is higher, due to higher distances, and the inefficiencies of serving low-density markets. This is another thing that keeps rural areas poor.

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Re:Why Was She So Hated?: How Marie Antoinette Tried to Save... by patagurbon on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:06AM (#24855570)

>receiving

Or rather purchasing?

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