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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by JaimeThompson on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:20PM (#35221912)
How do the food, livestock, minerals, and wood that grows in rural areas benefit society?
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Re:People Had to Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity by itake on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:39PM (#35240982)
Those are priced into the economy. The value the cities provide is transferred to rural for food, livestock, and minerals.

Handing rural people an extra $50k in addition of the payment for the goods ands services to install the infrastructure doesn't seem right to me.

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