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This seems inevitable for most industries in the US (car/general manufacturing) 1. City/region becomes a boom-town based on a new high profit-margin industry
by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
This seems inevitable for most industries in the US (car/general manufacturing)
1. City/region becomes a boom-town based on a new high profit-margin industry
2. As that region becomes more wealthy, labor increases in price, thus there is more incentive to seek labor/resources for that industry outside the city/region
3. City/region hollows out of middle-class level jobs for the industry, retains ceremonial labor and executive offices.
- remolacha 2mo agoin film, it sounds like this is driven by government incentives/disincentives, not labor costs (see anecdotes in this thread about LA-based production crews flying around the world for filming)
- atleastoptimal 2mo agoIt's also labor costs. It's far cheaper to get a crew, rent out space, etc in Eastern Europe, the US South, even the midwest, which is what led to films being made there. Government/tax incentives too of course.
- mrloopex 2mo agoCape cod. In the 1980s the rich people had trouble getting their trash picked up because no one could afford to live within an hour of the wealthiest areas.
- markdown 2mo agoSounds like Jackson Hole in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGSn0AC3-ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGSn0AC3-ok
- elcritch 2mo agoJackson Hole HS alum here. It's been like that since at least the early 2000's. I commuted to school every morning from Alpine WY. I still have part dream part nightmares about it.