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I think that is true of say the Middle East Which is mostly a terrible place if you’re not a sheikh. Not the US or EU, at least not until recently.
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Sure, it’s a constant in history actually, but I’m getting at something closer to pastoral nomadism but for an information economy. Certain specialized professions like oil drilling or cable-laying come close.
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Software development, especially for startups, has a collective force pushing people to move to San Francisco (despite, or maybe even because, its mostly out of room). I remember someone saying similar things about finance and NYC, though I couldn't source it.
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Ah, probably doesn't fit since it's (intended to be) a one-time move. Insurance claims and certain other types of contracting require you to visit places regularly, whether it be a client on-site or a crash site.
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Both of which (along with my bad examples) fits your original model. Excluding farming from your model makes it somewhat self-fulfilling. If you eliminate the existing lower class examples, what's left will be middle-class, because forcing upper-class people isn't done.
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I’m basically looking for continuous movement as a lifestyle, not one-offs driven by transient opportunity. Diplomats, sailors are the classics, but they’re pre-industrial.
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Insurance claims reviewers and on-site consulting are about the only examples I can find. Most everything else is semi-centralized, with the data moving to and from the center, not the people moving to the data.
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(Oddly enough, "edge computing" is this in reverse, for code. When you're talking data in the TB, its easier to move the comparatively small code into the datacenter, than to move the data out to the code and back again.)
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Except that I got terminology slight wrong, because its Saturday and I'm slacking. Edge computing is decentralizing compute load by pushing it to user / IoT devices. The "move code to data" is apparently a Hadoop marketing line, though I swear I've seen it applied elsewhere too.