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Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere, and there are a whole lot of burned out husks of civilization that are memorie
by jowiar 8y ago
Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere, and there are a whole lot of burned out husks of civilization that are memories to that.
Until we truly solve remote, there will be some concentration. And there's value to that as an employee. If your employer goes kaput, or you're stagnating in your career, or you have an abusive boss, there are plenty of opportunities available, and enough of them that one shock to the system won't break the local economy.
Of course, the flip side of that is that real estate values go through the roof.
- hueving 8y ago>Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere Why would you go to the other extreme? There are hundreds of large cities around the US that could easily headquarter these big companies and not become company towns.
- jowiar 8y agoHundreds is a stretch. When you get down to the hundredth-largest city you’re at Des Moines, population 217k. At that point, if the company were to say “zero our taxes or we leave”, the city would do as told. How small can a city be and have a healthy relationship with an employer of 25,000?
- api 8y agoThese kinds of demands for special treatment need to be made illegal. That would help.