>>15520864Yes sadly.
>>15520859Service economies don't work unless you revert to city-states. That's exactly what America's done. Most of the new services also operate in a way that siphons existing wealth from the interior and funnels it either offshore or to Canada. If you were operating a business looking to bankrupt local businesses in every little town through the interior, would you set up inefficient local offices, or would you limit your exposure as much as possible, keep a branch office in the state capital, and concentrate your resources in a place that's hard to get to, easily defended, and with sea and air egress available? Seattle is an isthmus. New York is mostly islands. Miami is at the end of the continent and half on an island. San Francisco is at the tip of a peninsula with endless suburban breakwaters to slow any advance. None of these places were chosen by accident. The tech dudes always knew eventually they'd bleed the rest of the country white and render business so uniform and so dependent on their infrastructure, millions would seriously consider banding together to stop them. There's nothing stopping you from trying to build a business in the middle. It's beautiful! Just recognise digital ensures that everywhere is anywhere, the worst people will always know what you're doing and they really, really care, and you're at the mercy of whatever batshit crazy ideologies these people keep close to their chests, and we have some ideas what they are.