My tweet about ugliness of highway strip development is getting WAY more traffic than any given one of my train tweets, but...
...I don't know of any way that it might be reversed. Even in Japan, places like Hokkaido & the Nihonkai coast have this problem
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it's a result of globalization and industrial consolidation — those could be reversed, though we may not want to
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Even if making x in Lewiston doesn’t make sense, seems crazy that capital can’t figure out, “make y” there instead
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capital would rather make y in bangladesh, but what cities need not just jobs but senior jobs
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if you want a rich local cultural life, you need people with the disposable cash to fund it: you need managers
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owners, not managers (or rather, not JUST managers)
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gap between executive pay and minimum pay in Japan is much lower than in USA because (in part) far MORE businesses...
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...with fewer employees each; the ratio between # of owners and # of workers is much better
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there are huge chain stores in Japan too, ofc, but the difference is "mom & pop" never went away--tons of competition
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