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Every post about rural America on HN always ends up with at least one of these hostile "f-you, adopt my lifestyle" comments. They're unempathetic, parochial, b
by Chaebixi 9y ago
Every post about rural America on HN always ends up with at least one of these hostile "f-you, adopt my lifestyle" comments. They're unempathetic, parochial, boring, and certainly not clever.
- SauciestGNU 9y agoI'm not asking anyone to adopt a lifestyle, I'm advocating that we assist people relocating to a place where they have a semblance of a chance to prosper. Propping up slowly dying towns with subsidies in the form of EBT and social security/disability and Medicaid surely has less economic utility than putting programs in place that will help the people in dying towns find productivity elsewhere. I understand that people grow attached to their homes and their communities, but the idea that people are entitled to prosperity in the location of their choosing is ludicrous. With telecommuting and remote work it becomes more possible, but you've still got to close the skills gap between the (largely uneducated) rural small towns and economically productive cities.
- pnutjam 9y agoCan you imagine what single payer or UBI would do to revitalize rural america?
- eli_gottlieb 9y agoWell, if we allow everything down to municipal development and agricultural species diversity to be set by profitability and market factors, we are implicitly saying, "Fuck you, adopt my lifestyle" to everyone whose lifestyle doesn't generate high returns.
- candiodari 9y agoAnd if we don't (to a large, but not quite 100%, extent) we allow for a huge, huge vulnerability in our society. One that could cause it to fail, and has caused many catastrophic failures in the past.