NYT to packing urban cities with people like sardines: it's your density!

"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get plied upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

The NYT's packing program for people in failed urban environments (run by Democrats):

What else to make of this?: One Path to Better Jobs: More Density in Cities

...when it comes to economic growth and the creation of jobs, the denser the city the better.

How great are the benefits of density? Economists studying cities routinely find that after controlling for other variables, workers in denser places earn higher wages and are more productive. Some studies suggest that doubling density raises productivity by around 6 percent while others peg the impact at up to 28 percent. Some economists have concluded that more than half the variation in output per worker across the United States can be explained by density alone; density explains more of the productivity gap across states than education levels or industry concentrations or tax policies.

And Ryan Avent is correct for the year '11. Well, 1811. Not 2011. There is such a thing as the internet and people do communicate around the globe now in an instant. But setting that aside, how's that population concentration in urban environments working out for Europe? They are more concentrated than we are here in the US. How come they have been in a multi-decade economic stagnation? It's not the economy, it's the liberal Utopian idea that packing people into urban environments forces you to depend on others for your very survival, much moreso than people living on their own plot of land. And if they can be trained to depend on other people, than surely they can be trained to depend on Big Government. Democratic Party vote windfall ensues. Thanks but no thanks. There is a good reason people have been fleeing concentrated urban environments like Detroit. I'm with Jefferson on this one. Get out of the urban environment that tends to go corrupt. Live in the country and breath the free air.