Hi, there
I was reading a text and I found this:
"Urbanization has been a constant theme in human development for the past ten thousand years. Althoughthere has always been the necessity for a minimum - sometimes a very substantial minimum - of the population to work the land, such surplus individuals as can be sustained have tended to gather in cities."
What does "such surplus individuals as can be sustained" mean?
Thank you
I was reading a text and I found this:
"Urbanization has been a constant theme in human development for the past ten thousand years. Althoughthere has always been the necessity for a minimum - sometimes a very substantial minimum - of the population to work the land, such surplus individuals as can be sustained have tended to gather in cities."
What does "such surplus individuals as can be sustained" mean?
Thank you