And cities externalizing their problems to suburbia and ruralia, that’s just the way things have always been. Sure, ruralia cannot support vibrant and dynamic labor market, but cities cannot feed themselves, can’t get natural resources, and cannot even reproduce, fertility rates in cities being utterly abysmal, and depending on suburbia and ruralia to constantly replenish its human stock.

This kind of network of mutually codependent systems is just the way things are.