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Ecologist Eugene Odum remarked that you'd get the wrong idea about rivers in the tropics by seeing a tank full of tropical fish, but this is exactly what you get growing up in the city.

My impression is if you grew up lower class in New York City you'd see these skyscrapers rising up without visible support and come to assume the economy is all one big scam and that it is fundamentally about power and exploitation as opposed to producing anything. No wonder some people like How to be an anti-racist. (Though I do find it strange that I see so many black people at street level and hardly any when I go up the elevator in one of those skyscrapers)

If you grow up in a rural area you do see a seed planted and watch it grow and could get a little bit into insight where there is something rather than nothing.

Cold war strategist Herman Kahn pointed out you could divide a country into A (capital cities) and B (the rest) and that if A got blown up in a thermonuclear war the resources of B could regenerate A in a human lifetime but the converse would be impossible.

Thus the "rural idiocy" that Lenin wrote about has been replaced by an "urban idiocy" where people's real life has been replaced by fragments of TV episodes of Friends. The reason they have 1 day Prime shipping around NYC, WDC and LA is because stock market analysts, politicians, and sitcom writers live there and those people colonize the rest of our minds.