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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In days gone by, people would move from other places to places like California and Massachusetts, but the crazy zoning policies in coastal metropolises makes that more and more expensive. I blame Atticus, for never coming around any more.
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Dude, a low skilled worker in Arkansas displaced from his gig by a robot is not going to re-emerge in Palo Alto as a tech entrepreneur. This is a silly argument.
The problem we have is a glut of bodies and increasingly less for them to do.
There is no solution to this except for more open borders. Americans need to start moving abroad, the way Europeans moved here in the early 20th century. And we need to let immigrants move here more easily.
The problem with that is nobody wants to let outsiders in, including us. You think Norway is eager to share the oil riches with goofy American economic refugees? Does Australia want an influx of rust belt factory workers looking for a fresh start?
The Forgotten of Flyoverland are, I believe the term is, "legacy liabilities."
ETA: And we've not even gotten to the soon-to-be economic refugees. Shall Dubai open its arms for all the STEM degree holders when that glut hits? Maybe put them all on the country's man made archipelago. Call it Asperger's Island. And the big daddy of them all will be the financial workers displaced by algorithms in the coming years. Does any nation want America's newly-unemployed and most entitled asshats soiling its cafes, demanding bottle service and molesting the locals' daughters?
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