I look at the N.E. And I think- what if you could get all these people living in nowhere into Troy, Lewiston, Springfield?
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Replying to @michaelbd
I work in Springfield--the emptiness of once-strong regional cities is a plague on the Northeast, but...
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Replying to @380kmh @michaelbd
...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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Replying to @380kmh @michaelbd
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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Replying to @michaelbd @380kmh
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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Replying to @kev_jg @michaelbd
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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Anyway, I just keep banging into his idea that we wouldn’t waste so much if we could combine what’s flung apart.
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