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by geogra4 11y ago
The nice thing about owning a reasonably sized home is that I have a pretty decent home office setup when I need to WFH. I can segregate it from my 'play' area enough so I don't feel like I'm constantly on the clock. Bal
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by geogra4 11y ago
I live in Detroit, own a 4bed/2bath and bike to work everyday for a mortgage that's less than 1/4 of the rent median SF 1br. SF is a cartoon world. Yes salaries are less here, but I feel so much more at ease owning my place a
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by geogra4 11y ago
Hi, I'm the enterprise over here!
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by geogra4 12y ago
Fair enough. There are hundreds of episodes to pick from in labour history.
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by geogra4 12y ago
Correct. Just sweeping under the rug the labour history that made the mid 20th century so egalitarian with respect to wealth. If we want a more egalitarian distribution of wealth, we have to demand it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by geogra4 12y ago
There's a lot of money to be lost in transactional costs when crossing country borders vis-a-vie state borders.
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by geogra4 12y ago
Don't disagree with you there.
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by geogra4 12y ago
..And we have fiber[0] 0: http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2015/02/22/dan-gil...
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by geogra4 12y ago
Well, then you should come visit :)
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by geogra4 12y ago
A shame Detroit was not included. Salaries are similar to Chicago and CoL is much lower, although probably not as low as Raleigh.
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by geogra4 12y ago
>Also, some portion of this will come right back to them, as it means employees have more money to buy their goods with. I wonder if Fordism is coming back into style?
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by geogra4 12y ago
>The mistake of many modern feminists, he writes, is that they “look only at the top of society and draw conclusions about society as a whole This is a critique that a lot of feminists make as well. Google the phrase 'white feminism
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by geogra4 12y ago
Back in a previous life I used to work for a software company in the defense/GIS space. It's pretty incredible how much labour goes in to making the earth somehow representable as a series of X, Y and Z tuples. The difference betw
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by geogra4 12y ago
I'm living in Detroit (or the Detroit area, I guess, not Detroit proper). The issues with working in software out here in the (so called) hinterlands is few-fold. 1. You can work for companies in the traditional rust belt industrial ba
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Where do you search for remote jobs?
12 points by geogra4 12y ago|3 comments
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by geogra4 12y ago
Awesome. Great to see more good work out of Michigan! Great idea as well
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Google's Political Donations to Climate Change Deniers(pando.com)
1 points by geogra4 12y ago|0 comments
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by geogra4 12y ago
Jacobin is a fantastic magazine with great long form articles. Very happy to see this re-posted here.
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McDonalds closes Chicago HQ in response to protests(theguardian.com)
1 points by geogra4 12y ago|0 comments
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by geogra4 13y ago
The rich vote with money and always get what they want The middle classes vote at the polls and never get what they want The poor vote with violence and sometimes get what they want A brief summary of history
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by geogra4 13y ago
The University of California charged NO TUITION until the 1970s. Think about that for a second. While we bicker and boast on here about bootstraps and how to pay off debt by living like a pauper we have to realize that we are straight up be
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by geogra4 13y ago
SAP. It's not particularly exotic but it runs the world.
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The Wind Lens: Double or triple wind turbine output?(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by geogra4 13y ago|0 comments
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by geogra4 13y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to hold the extraordinarily wealthy to extraordinary standards.
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by geogra4 13y ago
I live in Detroit and I'd rather live here than San Francisco.
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by geogra4 13y ago
>That's quite a short-sighted move that makes a quick buck now, but lowers home value in the long term. In areas where there are a lot of single family residences, there is usually also demand for better schools. When the schools wo
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by geogra4 13y ago
Is the solution for everyone to be a developer? What would that world look like? The world still needs people to do jobs like security, burger flipping, and stocking shelves until everything is automated. It's not even necessarily the
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by geogra4 13y ago
Companies with high capitalization? What do you mean by that? Some corporations support raising the minimum wage only in the sense that it would bankrupt their competitors business models. (cf Costco vs Wal-Mart). Although as someone in sup
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by geogra4 13y ago
I think it generally helps to follow the money. The big money is in big business increasing the bottom line by lowering wages in the economy. They can do that by increasing the labor pool enough so that there is a critical mass of workers t
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by geogra4 13y ago
At what wage? That's what I say to those claiming that hundreds of thousands of jobs are unfilled in any sector, be it IT consulting firms clamoring for h1-bs or agriculture firms looking for cheap fruit pickers.

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