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Ep 198: Cities and Citizens

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Prisoner of Geography

We tend to think of things as the accidental circumstance of birth in certain families rn places, and sooand so forth. But it continues through the rest of one's life as well, that there is a sort of prisonership to geography in a lot of things. In places like america, this has been taken to an extreme. You live in a nice neighbourhood, you have a set of opportunities that come for merely living - but if you're from a poor neighbourhood, you don't even have the money to teach your kinsfolk. And so you you have thes sorts of a s into which we keep we we have let ourselves into. It can say that governments have a

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