4 ms·
This is the insanely simple and insanely correct answer.
by lackbeard 10y ago
This is the insanely simple and insanely correct answer.
- blakeyrat 10y agoIf I wanted to live in a city, I would have moved into one years ago. I don't. I like where I live. I just want a job within less than an hours' commute of me.
- lackbeard 10y agoThat's fine, you can live wherever you want, but jobs are moving to cities and if we want to make life better for the people working those jobs then we should build housing for them in supply adequate to make it affordable.
- blakeyrat 10y agoYou say "jobs are moving to cities" as if it's a law of nature. It's not.
- moultano 10y agoIt's happening in every country on earth, regardless of the policies of the respective governments.
- antisthenes 10y agoJobs have been moving to cities ever since the first city existed. It's a fact of physics and economics that cities simply have a higher density of jobs than rural areas - and that reduces costs of applying to jobs for people. You can stick fingers in your ears and shout it isn't so or a law of nature, but that's just being deliberately economically illiterate.
- madamelic 10y agoYes, let's decentralize our business. Scatter them throughout the country. Let's put some roadblocks on being able to co-mingle with other businesses --- I do semi-agree with you. I think remote work is the future but part of that equation is manufacturing jobs are gone. It doesn't matter if we shut down 100% of the jobs in China and Mexico and bring them here, manufacturing jobs are dying. Anyone in manufacturing needs a way out. Either they need to find it or we need to help them but twiddling our thumbs and pretending like automation isn't coming is short-sighted.
- pyre 10y agoI'm sure there are people that want to live in the wilds of Alaska, but have all of the benefits of living in NYC with regards to jobs, but that doesn't mean it's possible or even likely. What you want and what reality is don't have to match up.