spothedog1

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by spothedog1 5y ago
Do you mean like NYC? Literally the city built on large scale immigration? Also the state of California. Houston, Texas is the most diverse city in the country and you can buy a house for less than the national average. There are hundreds o
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by spothedog1 5y ago
> Since you mentioned strawberries, Driscolls, the U.S. berry giant, a) actually yields most of its strawberries from Mexico, and b) is poised to increase automation even further. Have a look at the careers page here and take note of wha
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by spothedog1 5y ago
I’m thinking in purely economic terms
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by spothedog1 5y ago
Not familiar with housing in Greece. I should have clarified I’m talking about the US where housing is quite cheap to build but regulations make it illegal to build most types of housing. I was born in the US but a lot of my family are immi
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by spothedog1 5y ago
Limited supply of housing is an artificial local government constraint using tools like zoning and permitting to stop the construction of new housing keep prices high for incumbent owners. I agree it’s a huge problem but I would rather figh
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by spothedog1 5y ago
Yea they were mostly rebuilding the physical world and not having to completely rebuild society from the ground. Small countries like the Nordics aren’t great examples because they’re so small and a massive part of their wealth came from se
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by spothedog1 5y ago
I’ve read about this and a big reason is it’s simply so much easier to get a job in the US. You’re not dealing with unions and America just has way more low paying jobs. You can def argue this isn’t a good thing but working a low paying job
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by spothedog1 5y ago
That was almost entirely due to America rebuilding Europe and every other major industrial power knocked off their perch for a couple of decades. It had nothing to do with immigration. Additionally Americans were still having lots of kids a
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by spothedog1 5y ago
The US def has a labor shortage if it wants to stay globally competitive in some sectors. Americans will either buy strawberries from immigrants on agricultural visas, they will buy strawberries overseas or they won’t buy strawberries. Ther
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by spothedog1 5y ago
Except the US has a large labor shortage that predates covid in construction, agriculture, domestic work, scientists, engineers and more. If automation comes then great but the basic principals of more people in an economy means more demand
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by spothedog1 5y ago
This is inaccurate. More people, even low skilled ones are still a huge benefit to your society. They buy goods and services in the local economy increasing demand and work tax paying jobs. Immigrants children grow up to greatly out earn th
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by spothedog1 5y ago
It's literally the opposite. Old people are way richer and have the time and money to go through the bureaucracy. Also old people are much better connected to local politicians. Yuppies are who they're trying to repel, that's
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by spothedog1 5y ago
My personal anecdote. I'm still very good friends with all of my friends from high school and college and it is almost entirely due to the ability to constantly group message. We all talk almost every day and I've since lost conta
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by spothedog1 5y ago
It's because everything in the US is based around car infrastructure. Kids can't drive or cross 6 lane roads to get to school.
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by spothedog1 5y ago
Hmm I gotta disagree with that. While yes they are 0sum they are totally different organizations operating these things. If Atlanta DOT isn’t improving their local transit networks it’s not because they’re focusing on Nashville rail connect
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by spothedog1 5y ago
While I agree with what you said can’t these things be done in tandem? There is a lot of working being done in almost every major city to make them more public transit and pedestrian friendly. That work needs to be done by the city and coun
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by spothedog1 6y ago
They're not talking about protected nature preserves and national parks, they're talking about protected single family zoning which prohibits density increases.
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by spothedog1 6y ago
GoDaddy is a FAANG?
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by spothedog1 6y ago
Immigration has been happening for the entire history of the United States