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How industrial consolidation destroys community fabric

My town used to have a main street with local shops and now it is just empty storefronts and a Walmart and everyone seems lost.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Economic centralization erodes the local structures that once provided both livelihood and social cohesion.

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“Where Are You with Industrial revolution and its human cost?”

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