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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:43:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:03:42 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2024-10-24 1:35 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> If the people in those "large cities" do not receive food, what will
>>> happen to them?
>> 
>> They won’t be able to make the machines that the farmers use to farm
>> their crops. There would be no electricity generation or fuel supply,
>> no manufacturing of farmhouses, no laying of roads for the trucks to
>> supply feed and fertilizer and seed and take away produce. Nobody to
>> pay the farmers. Nobody to educate them on how to grow their crops.
>> 
>> The whole system collapses.
> 
> City people don't have a monopoly on he production of machines.

Machines, including farming machines, are complicated things. Most of the 
modern ones need to be built with the help of other machines. There need 
to be support machines for transport (of raw materials, workers, finished 
products), fuelling, communications etc. And for keeping track of orders 
and shipments and payments and all that. This is why you don’t see big 
factories out in the middle of corn fields.

Anyway, getting back to the point: why should the value of your vote 
depend on where you live? If you believe that all your citizens are 
“created equal”, then shouldn’t their votes count equally, too?