>Democracy being what it is, most funding goes to the majority - which are in the city.

Democracy has to be more than two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.

It's true that the majority can just vote to line their own pockets and leave the minority in squalor, but that leaves a pretty shitty country leftover. Many of these rural areas look like third-world countries and that's not something us urbanites should be proud of.

Scholarship money disproportionately goes to lower income students, but that doesn't mean we should stop giving them scholarship money.