The second option is to start importing foreign workers. Rome did this, New York does this, London only started this fairly recently.
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To try and turn the entire *world* into your rural hinterland is a characteristically imperial move.
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And, just like empires themselves, such a move works pretty well until it doesn't. Eventually even the world runs out of people to send.
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So: why bother with cities in the first place? Cities are where we develop technology--outside them, regression to nature is the rule.
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You can analogize them to stars: stars are where elements heavier than hydrogen are made. Outside stars, you slide back to absolute zero.
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Humans cut off entirely from cities gradually lose the use of technologies they once had. If undisturbed for long enough, we'll forget fire.
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Now, this is fine if you earnestly believe humans should live among other animals as other animals.
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But if you want to see where technological development will go, then you want cities to work. Which brings us back to the problem.
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While city populations grow by migration, city technology develops by imitation. Up-and-coming cities imitate mature cities...
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you can try, Lord knows thousands of rulers have attempted the same in the past
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