I think we decided that was a trick question.
Did we ever come to a conclusion about the other question, the one Pubbie has been trying to get you to answer?
I figured we might, because answering it accurately will support my position, but will go against yours. :)
Harbor cities don't get rich by growing corn. They get rich by facilitating trade. Other industries follow, but it is the trade activity that gains them their initial capital. New York is wealthy precisely because it has an excellent natural harbor. The same is true of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and various other major port cities. Geography decreed that they would become locations of cities, and those cities would become wealthy.
Did we ever come to a conclusion about the other question, the one Pubbie has been trying to get you to answer?
I think we have all came to our own conclusions about that. So far as i'm concerned, it is a pointless effort to dramatize the entire focus so that someone can once more beat the drum of virtue signaling; So that someone can once more regurgitate the propagandized position that has been taught to all of us as we were growing up;
So that they can once more focus the spotlight on something they regard as emotionally satisfying, but which does not actually fit the facts, though people are intent on ignoring that bit of inconvenience.