When a city's population can't grow, its economy can't develop much further...historically, there are two things you can do at that point
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...finding new, locally practical ways to accomplish the same results. This creation of new ways of working creates demand for more workers.
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Eventually, an up-and-coming city has imitated all that's worth imitating, invented whatever it can invent, and become a mature city.
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A mature city can only grow again when it finds itself "backward," behind the level of development of newer mature cities...
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...and therefore in a position to imitate and invent once again. Some cities pull this off, some never do, and simply stagnate indefinitely.
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This is the other problem with the imperial approach: betting that all future development will come out of one ever-growing city.
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(looking forward to the full essay/blogpost/op-ed!)
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you can try, Lord knows thousands of rulers have attempted the same in the past
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