@oddblots I don't think so. Metropolitan hubs run the world (and the vector is incomplete -- we haven't seen anything yet).
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@nydwracu If Occidental megacities drop the torch, Asian megacities will pick it up. The exurbs don't get to play.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@nydwracu Who ruled the world when?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Nick_B_Steves Suzhou is nice too. But those places don't run the world. (Nor do vast slum hell-holes -- for NBS.)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MikeAnissimov How much does the repulsive effect of 'urban' criminality on families get displaced onto high property values? -
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@MikeAnissimov @AmosandGromar Sadly they wait to do so until they're up to their nostrils in apocalyptic social collapse.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@spandrell1 Oh come on! There's almost every imaginable advantage, excepting moral tranquility.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@spandrell1 Concentrations of smart people, cultural institutions, architectural excellence, commercial Darwinism, opportunity, spectacle ..Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@spandrell1 I know Paleo-Marxist economic determinism isn't really the place to be these days, but there's such a thing as over-compensationThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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