buried lede they make $18 and $20 an hour respectively should set off alarm bells that the region as a whole is completely fuckedhttps://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/889551314845347841 …
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relocation is trivial by comparison
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what really fuels it is the reinforcing cycle of startups/VCs/employees/big corps all basing there because...
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...they need to be near other of those categories and that's where most of them are
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Which is pretty weird tbh
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Something changed in the last two hundred years that changed continental migration from commonplace to unthinkable
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you're an 18th century german or a 19th century irishman, america is the land of opportunity
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there you're destined to die poor as you were born, here you can own a farm or a business, leave it to your kids
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nowadays if you're broke, uncredentialed, and unskilled, what's the point of picking up roots?
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there isn't a realistic path to "make it" for laborers of average or less intelligence nowadays like there was
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at least not one with the enormous difference in outcomes like there was to justify such a risk/burden
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