Strategic Roadmap: Transitioning to the Distributed Micro-Enterprise (DME) Economy
Rural leaders have spent seventy years chasing a 1,000-mile failure model. This legacy strategy of industrial recruitment—offering ruinous tax abatements to attract corporate branch plants or low-margin call centers—has left non-metropolitan America in a thermodynamic trap. When corporate headquarters in distant metros face a quarterly earnings hiccup, the rural “terminal end-point” is the first to…
