Elitist writers have recently published articles extolling the benefits of designating Mega-cities as the political powerhouses of the future.

A new white paper from Euromonitor, “Megacities: Developing Country Domination,” says there are now 33 megacities, each with populations of 10 million or more. They harbor a wealth of investment, education and employment opportunities, but also have to contend with issues such as overcrowding, traffic congestion, air pollution and income inequality, so the story goes.

According to the writers huge cities will take the place of nations.

The unwritten goal it seems likely is to promote progressive policies of the one-world entrepreneurs.

Financial capitals

According to Euromonitor, finance centers such as London, New York, Tokyo and Seoul continue to maintain an economic advantage over their developing world counterparts.

By 2030, disposable income per household in megacities in developed nations is forecast to remain five times higher, on average, than in emerging urban centers.

Average GDP per person will be four times greater in developed nation megacities, with 33 % of households earning a disposable income exceeding $100,000, compared to just 3.3 % in emerging megacities.

The articles say nothing about the problems sure to erupt with the massive squeezing of millions of people into smaller areas.

If America’s larger cities are any example, they are the crime-riddled, politically corrupt centers of America.

Citizens are leaving such places by the drove because they don’t like the afore-mentioned problems along with accompanying high tax rates.

The mega-city promoters also don’t mention how the people are to be induced to leave their familiar surroundings, family and friends to live in the concrete jungles.

One image promoting the super cities claims a study identifies “financing solutions for cities affected by climate change to protect residents.”

You might have guessed before now that the “scary” climate change mumbo-jumbo would be included in the propaganda.

And what about the disease epidemics that would be sure to find large populations crammed together.

That might be a benefit to betters looking for a way to afflict overly-populated cities, especially the elderly.

New York Gov. Cuomo may have already paved the way with his policy of placing COVID-19 patients in nursing homes. He even got an award for it along with fawning coverage from a compliant left-wing media.

No doubt old-fashioned individual rights would have to be done away with for the “greater goods.”

Elitists can’t have their superior intelligence violated by citizens who can think for themselves.

We can just hear an elderly couple praising the overseers who are driving them along urban blue spaces to improve their health or the “pocket parks” that will help the mega cities tackle pollution.

“Aren’t we lucky to live in such an advanced culture,” the elderly wife might say.

“Yeah, we don’t even have to think,” the elderly husband might comment. Then add wistfully, “I wonder how the kids are doing back home?”

Who Will Do the Deciding?

We also have to wonder who will be selected to remain in rural areas to produce the food and fiber that will be needed for the packed-in urban residents. Also, who will be the ones to decide.

Will there still be private ownership of property - a key ingredient to a free system?

Highly doubtful.

We almost forgot the mega-city promoters promise higher incomes for the residents. Apparently it’s just because big cities attract more capital.

One source suggests that workers will be more productive and that employees can move up the economic ladder faster because of availability of more employers.

Pardon us for being a nay-sayer but we’ll believe it when we see it.

Central planning by government has never been successful and that is the key to mega-city dominance, it would seem to us.

But in the big city of the future, what could a simple rube know and certainly who could care what he thought?

Another advantage for the ruling elite, it would seem that a coalition of big cities would be much easier to manipulate in creating strangling rules for an ever more powerful central world government than independent nations where people have constitutional freedoms.

That seems to be one of the plans our betters are formulating - for our own good, of course.

Also, of course, I tend to be suspicious of government these days.

I no longer think of Congress as made up of geniuses.