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It's the jobs. People didn't migrate from rural to urban in the last several hundred years because they wanted the shops, they went where the highest concentra
by SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
It's the jobs. People didn't migrate from rural to urban in the last several hundred years because they wanted the shops, they went where the highest concentration of jobs were. Moving to a rural area won't help people find jobs.
- ghaff 6y agoYou mean the jobs that are likely to be at least somewhat less location-dependent coming out of this? (Not arguing for 100% remote or anything like this but still a fairly major shift. I certainly know plenty of people who have already moved out of cities to quite rural locations.)
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoI think this is another case of knowledge worker myopia. With the exception of Amazon, you can't really work retail remote. Those workers who can work remotely now can leave at any time, that's right, and there has been a bigger shift for them, but we can't pretend that the majority of workers are remote workers. The people who had to come to the city for work, people who worked in retail or in industry, those types jobs aren't moving back rural. You can't work a factory where one isn't and you can't open up retail locations in the middle of nowhere.
- ghaff 6y agoCertainly, I'm specifically talking about the highly-paid knowledge workers in cities. But if they move out to any large degree that cascades. You don't need the higher-end luncheon spots and other amenities those workers use at that point. There aren't generally factories or distribution centers in cities. It may even be a positive for some of those workers to the degree prices go down, albeit with fewer high-end restaurants and so forth and fewer co-workers.