Why did people flock to cities?
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Replying to @willdoingthings
@willdoingthings It is counter-intuitive to me that the common man would desire money at the cost of quality of life.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @willdoingthings
@willdoingthings "Quality of life" is probably susceptible to all sorts of misleading shit due to attempting to quantify an unquantifiable1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @drethelin
@drethelin Don't have to quantify, maybe still susceptible to misleading shit though (e.g. structuralist idealization of gemeinschaft?)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @willdoingthings
@willdoingthings sure even without putting numbers on it cities seem to enable self actualization for more kinds of people than the country.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @drethelin
@drethelin I was thinking more late nineteenth, early twentieth century when 'self-actualization' &c. mostly wasn't on a peasant's mind2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @willdoingthings
@drethelin in modern China farmers are disenfranchised so children are pushed to cities to make money, not sure if 19th century was similar1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@willdoingthings @drethelin no place for them in rural areas as farming gets more efficientpic.twitter.com/uf0X3zCZqV
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