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MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The big cities will thrive on their own, sure, but their tax money would then no longer be used to help people in the more remote regions.

As an Australian, I assure you it is possible for a country of "big cities" to fund activity in remote areas. I won't say we do it a perfect job of it here, but we do a decent enuogh job and some of our remote towns are far more remote than anything in the northern hemisphere. Some Australian towns are several hours by airplane to the nearest city and don't even have a reliable source of water. And yet, the people living there have relatively comfortable lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The problem in my mind is that the big cities and the remote areas would likely become separate countries, so there'll be about a 100x difference in GDP per capita between the richest and poorest post-Russian nations.