that's ~75k/yr assuming 40-hour week which is comfortably within fourth quint household nationally, the issue is the bay area is unlivable
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when tech cos propose employee housing to make up for actively malicious california governments it's decried as company towns or serfdom
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which may be true enough but idk what people expect them to do
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Relocatr: a startup that will help your business find office space, and your employees find housing, in a non-stupid location.
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The problem is relocating all their friends and lovers too
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it is however a fact that the upper middle class is vastly more mobile than the working class
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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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