I would also further subsidize people who live in areas that currently have poor employment opportunities. As an act of charity.
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Replying to @random_eddie
I am fine with charity. What I am not fine with is charity EXPLICITLY TUNED so as to make the problem worse.
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Replying to @MorlockP
"make the problem worse" - That's only true if you define the problem as 'people not moving' instead of 'people not working'.
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If you pay people to stay in a place with no employment & have kids, you create more unemployed people.
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My thesis is that less-dense areas can be viable centers of economic activity, even if not as strong as cities.
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Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP
Right now they're not viable; they're dying. I'm saying this is path-dependent and reversible.
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path dependent: yes? Reversible? Unclear. I mean, sure, if you build a $1T city there. But otherwise? >
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these areas have two problems: 1) not close to people who generate jobs 2) full of people who _don't_.
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I'd argue that big single employer towns are kind of terrible, sort of like countries with "the resource curse".
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you train everyone to sit around and wait for the boss to tell them what to do. No role models. No sense of self determination
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unions, communism, and giant corporations destroy the human spirit. ...but I repeat myself.
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Perhaps the worst cases, the ones getting press like that Reason article, have absolutely no human capital left at all. +
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... s t even if you removed all bad incentives AND supplied capital, there could be no productive business formation possible. +
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