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This is a price signal. Anyone who's calling for intervention needs to wake up. The proper response is for people to leave. If you drive across America, you'll
by fny 4y ago
This is a price signal. Anyone who's calling for intervention needs to wake up.
The proper response is for people to leave. If you drive across America, you'll find economically, depressed areas which have suffered from brain drain. Many aspire to attend an out of state college, go work in the Valley, join some VC-funded startup, megacorp, consulting firm, and strike it rich.
In all likelihood, you will (1) not strike it rich (2) have a worse quality of life on a cost adjusted basis (3) forgo developing a local community. Perhaps you'll enjoy more culture, but that might have been something that have developed in a smaller community had you not run off to a megacity.
Developing local communities is what America needs today. Just drive across this country and you'll find a tremendous amount of land coupled with tremendous economic depression. It's high time that price signals like rent drive people out of high cost of living areas into more depressed areas to promote broader-based growth.
- voidhorse 4y agoSure, but this is totally antithetical to american culture which is extremely selfish, entirely oriented around acquiring money, and obsessed with pop culture which generally leads people to pursue positions that are high paying and locales that are “the place to be”. When the only values that remain are the acquisition of capital, self-love, and fame, the majority of the population will elect to be in the places that present those possibilities to them, even if it requires making short-term decisions that harm them (absurd renting costs), because they believe they might make it work given time.
- jeffbee 4y agoMaybe, but you are also advocating for climate arson. Every person who leaves NYC for any other American city other than Berkeley is raising their carbon footprint, dramatically in the case of most cities. So that isn't great. The other perspective that you need to consider is there are huge populations who simply will not consider living in the cities you mentioned. Women, for example, do not want to move to Ohio. Homosexuals would rather not live in Oklahoma. People who are not white can rule out a happy existence in 90% of American cities. It's true that a single, straight, white male with no children can pick up and move anywhere, but that's a relatively small fraction of the people.
- rendang 4y ago> People who are not white can rule out a happy existence in 90% of American cities Why in the world would that be the case?
- dragonwriter 4y agoBecause America is built on, and much of it (and not only the historically obvious bits) is still drowning in, racism.
- jeffbee 4y agoIt is not just the racism but also practical facts. There are American cities without a black barber. A given city may lack the food culture or language of some ethnic group. The incredible whiteness of some cities is self-perpetuating.
- _dain_ 4y agoDo you think that "whiteness" is a bad thing? What is wrong with white people? Do you not like us for some reason?
- jeffbee 4y agoThere isn't anywhere near enough space in this box to answer the question "What is wrong with white people" and that isn't my purpose here. I'm trying to tell you why there are non-obvious reasons why people don't just immediately move to Lincoln, Nebraska, when the rents change in Manhattan. It's because there aren't any Persian restaurants, or whatever people view as an amenity.
- _dain_ 4y agoBut you do think there is something wrong with white people? You actually do think there's something wrong with me, on account of the colour of my skin?
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