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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by tomjakubowski on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:11PM (#18125271)
The flip side of that is workers in sparsely populated areas are willing (and more able to) commute farther for work.
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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by smsm42 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:17PM (#18125784)
True, but given pretty hard cap on commute speed, I don't think it changes much. It's not unheard of to commute 50 miles to work now in the Bay Area (it's basically San Jose to San Francisco), how much more you can do in the middle of nowhere - double? I don't think many people would drive 3 hours there and 3 hours back every day.
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