You quoted Putin with urbanization being a problem, which i agree on.

Urbanization imho only became that popular because it is easier to cull a herd once they are concentrated.

And of course it's easier to collect their "wool" in a very wide sense. For the shepherds that enslave these herds.

Shooting fish in a barrel-like, if they refuse to play ball in their "personally algorithmed" Simon-says shitshow, so to say.