On Twitter last week, I had an exchange with an author who lives part time in Toronto and part time in New York City who contended the earth is "too crowded." When I pushed back by saying the entire population of earth could be comfortably housed in the combined land mass of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, he didn't disagree but said that people wanted to live in big cities because that is where the economic opportunity is.
That got me to thinking:
- Charles Koch, Wichita
- Warren Buffet, Omaha
- Bill Gates, Seattle
- Sam Walton, Bentonville
Seems to me that economic opportunity is where you make it. The wide open spaces and spectacular vistas of Kansas and the Great Plains may actually be more conducive to big thinking than a crowded, dirty city. After all:
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