The jobs and what they produce is a product of people’s willingness to crowd together into small areas and leave vast swaths of the countryside empty. There is plenty to do and survive on in rural areas, but the pay isn’t as good and doesn’t afford all the luxuries and gizmos that we’ve learned to take for granted.
Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona probably aren’t the best example, just places that you can get a good look at how wide open the country is. There are plenty of other places that are nicer to live and don’t have many people, but don’t make as good a picture to show how empty of people they are.
Incorrect.
The population centers did not come about by accidents, mistakes or the mere willingness of people wanting to crowd together. Population centers basically started around natural harbors, rivers, areas of good soil, good climate etc etc...Jobs naturally follow...The rest is history.
Look at the old gold towns, now ghost towns....Take away economy, resources, opportunity, desirability etc, and you get ghosts towns for the most part.