Are fresh vegetables and fish still shipped into the Hunts Point market in the Bronx by train? I worked there as a teenager before I enlisted.
Fish Market on South Street was closed 20 some odd years ago. Unload fish right off the boat at times.
One problem in a political /civil isolation of urban-rural communities is that access/egress to /from many urban areas requires passage over bridges or through tunnels.
The biggest problem for urban areas is that for the most part rural areas supply them with food, fuel.
Many moons ago, as a teenager, I asked my father about WW2. I asked him why he didn't enlist, and waited until he was drafted. He told me anyone who had any brains knew a major war was coming. There were still blind and legless veterans of The Great War begging on the streets. The Bonus Army...
I forget where I read it, but sometime around 2010 a guy wrote a piece on the 2008 financial crisis.
One item struck me. The large amount of barbed wire delivered to certain wealthy zip codes in the immediate years before the crisis
Whatever is going on the market just jumped ahead when President Trump announced in discussions with Danes he”got everything he wanted about Greenland…. And the length of the deal was infinite “
I sold 2 guns I haven’t used in years to them
They paid me 1/3 more than my regular FFL would have paid me.
I’ve used GB also, but these new guys were much easier