@BrentToderian There are certainly parts of this that ring true: choosing to work in a large city and living far from it & commuting by car being the main one.

Other than that, this is short-sighted, linear, and incomplete.

Both #Cities and #NationStates need #systemic makeovers in the new era. Their reasons for existence have mostly evaporated, and they continue to generate massive negative externalities, like concentrated #pollution, #inequality, and excessive transportation (while externalizing other negative consequences out beyond their borders, escaping consequence and social measure of their insatiable nature).

City-dominating #Corporations and their wealthy benefactors are but a tiny % of society, and do not distribute the gains they extract from the world. Their surplus wealth & power also raise the entry barriers high enough to prevent real competition by alternatives; only like-wise extractors can keep up the #unsustainable pace.

Apologists will continue to spin myths around "advantages" of cities, ignoring their caustic, imbalanced ratios that destroy so much of #community-based organization & the limits of local realism, in favor of the endless expanding financialization of market-based social organization.

The planetary #polycrisis demand moving in the opposite direction of concentrated populations living far from their resource demands and means of balance.