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> if you can work remotely, you can move south or east and live a lot cheaper. It just has to be your thing to move to a new country. “The solution to these pr
by yunohn 5y ago
> if you can work remotely, you can move south or east and live a lot cheaper. It just has to be your thing to move to a new country.
“The solution to these problems is to exploit systemic economic inequalities by leveraging remote work for income arbitrage”
I don’t understand why HN keeps repeating this “solution”.
- nivenkos 5y agoBecause it's the only way most of us can afford to own our residence.
- ben_w 5y agoIn addition to what @nivenkos says, it lowers geographic demand for goods/services in the place you moved from, so costs in the old place go up slower (or even down) because you moved, while also increasing demand (and in turn potentially increasing overall economic output) for geographic goods/services in the new place. It’s a levelling effect in both cases. Of course, remote working also seems to often cause pay cuts to match local cost of living, and also opens the possibility of being outsourced to extremely low income nations (same effect to a larger degree, especially as it might not be the same person doing the work).
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