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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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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If you're a 21st century Kansan somewhere else in America should theoretically be the land of opportunity
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You have to deal with like, 6+ government and utility bureaucracies to move anywhere
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Problem is that areas of opportunity are quickly cut down to size and all that evil inequality is shaved off w/intervention & regs.
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