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A comment on Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires can't fix local poverty. Parent comment

Re:Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires c... by kLeeIsDead on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:21PM (#13239591)
> One could claim that in a true dystopia the rich would just make it so insufferable that the poor leave as economic refugees.

that is literally happening right now.

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Re:Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires c... by maerF0x0 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @03:36PM (#13255335)
I meant it in an absolute sense. "that <all> the poor would leave..." Many choose to stay.
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Re:Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires c... by kLeeIsDead on Monday December 26, 2016 @06:03PM (#13260242)
so..... if 200 people decide to stay (out of the millions that left), then you're right and i'm wrong. guess i can't argue with that logic.
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