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The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People (www.monbiot.com)

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Lots to unpack in this somewhat ranty article, but also some food for thought.

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[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not exactly fair in the same way that it's not exactly fair that we have to grow food for you guys in cities. We do things for each other because we're a society and being a society is cool.

[–] poVoq 2 points 1 year ago

I disagree, there is nothing wrong with asking rural inhabitants to come to a nearby city to get treatment in a hospital, if that means that the service of this hospital can benefit people equally instead of it being monopolized by a small number of rural inhabitants.

And no one is forcing anyone to grow food, rural inhabitants are not enslaved by city dwellers.

But a society needs a certain amount of food and other resources for a given number of people, there is just no way around that if you don't want people to starve.

So what is your proposal to this? We can't continue as is, and moving all the city inhabitants to rural areas is clearly also not feasible.