Author is incorrect to say Ireland is uniquely centralized--it is the *rule* in modern countries that urban populations dwarf rural
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...and, within urban populations, that one city by far dominates the others. Consider France, or Denmark, or South Korea--etc etc
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No matter how free-flowing the transportation system, people will find that closer is still closer--and advantages come w being close...
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...to the key city in your country. Better to accept that and embrace it than to try and spread out your population b/c of rural romanticism
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Raised my eyebrow at this but I get what he's saying: "International capital is our life-blood"
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Ireland's one of these weird places where all the experience and reason tells them to be hard core capitalists but their hearts aren't in it
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